In the following table we compare the most important technical characteristics of the Phenom and the Athlon X2.
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Phenom vs. Athlon X2
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Phenom
Athlon X2
Code Name
Agena
WindsorBrisbaneOrleansLimaManila
Clock Speed
max. 2.30 GHz
max. 3.20 GHz
Hypertransport
HTT 1.0HTT 2.0HTT 3.0
HTT 1.0HTT 2.0
L1 Cache
4x 64+64 kB
2x 64+64 kB
L2 Cache
4x 512 kB
2x 1 MB2x 512 kB
L3 Cache
2 MB
none
Fabrication Process
65 nm
90 nm65 nm
Transistors
600 M
227 M154 M
DIE Area
285 mm²
183 mm²230 mm²
TDP
125 W
125 W89 W65 W62 W45 W35 W
Cool'n'Quiet
Version 2.0
Version 1.0
Instruction Sets
MMX3DNow!NXX86-64PacificaPresidioSSESSE2SSE3SSE4A
MMX3DNow!NXX86-64PacificaPresidioSSESSE2SSE3
The Phenom processor carries the code name Agena and uses the B2 stepping.
CPU-Z correctly recognizes the 2 MB L3 cache
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good review but you should have had included more result of the overclocked phenom. i just want to know how much juce i you can push out of it for me it is a must it beats the 6400+ otherwise its not worth purchasing in my opinion, it just has to beat its older generation when its running at same clocks.that is why amd has to work on its clock speed and cache. hopefully deneb will be out soon. i would also realy appriciate it to see some review about the phenom 9850 black edition compared against both the 6000+ 6400+ and q6600 and q9300 and maybe some e8xxx model. with overclocked results. pushed it to the maximum. would be realy cool hehe :)