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AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at 2.6 GHz
7:43 AM - December 19, 2007 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon, 64, x2
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon, 64, x2
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at 2.6 GHz

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (90 nm) was limited to 2.6 GHz and a single core to allow for the direct shootout against the Phenom. A 65 nm Athlon 64 X2 models appears to be the better choice, but only at first glance: the performance difference between the 65 nm and the 90 nm models is virtually nothing. We could not run power consumption tests, as we didn't have the tools to physically switch off all unused cores.

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its architecture it fine but
it is clock speed the phenom lacks. if amd can just bump its speed up to around 3ghz-3.6ghz then it would make good competition towards faster intels. i can conclude from this benchmark that if you buy an phenom 9850 and clock it around 3ghz you have much more horse power then you would have with an athlon x2 6000+ however some benchmarks might tell you something else it makes sence if you use 1066mhz memory or just 800mhz mem
i wish tom's would update this topic with new benchmarks on the amd phenom 9850be. i'd like to know if it's more stable now that the "nasty bug" has been remedied with the march 2008 product line refresh.