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Direct AMD Comparison - Phenom And Athlon X2
12:34 AM - November 19, 2007 by
Bert Töpelt
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: spider, weaves, web
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: spider, weaves, web
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Direct AMD Comparison - Phenom And Athlon X2
In the following table we compare the most important technical characteristics of the Phenom and the Athlon X2.

The bottom of the Phenom CPU.
| Phenom vs. Athlon X2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Phenom | Athlon X2 | |
| Code Name | Agena | Windsor
Brisbane Orleans Lima Manila |
| Clock Speed | max. 2.30 GHz | max. 3.20 GHz |
| Hypertransport | HTT 1.0
HTT 2.0 HTT 3.0 |
HTT 1.0
HTT 2.0 |
| L1 Cache | 4x 64+64 kB | 2x 64+64 kB |
| L2 Cache | 4x 512 kB | 2x 1 MB
2x 512 kB |
| L3 Cache | 2 MB | none |
| Fabrication Process | 65 nm | 90 nm
65 nm |
| Transistors | 600 M | 227 M
154 M |
| DIE Area | 285 mm² | 183 mm²
230 mm² |
| TDP | 125 W | 125 W
89 W 65 W 62 W 45 W 35 W |
| Cool'n'Quiet | Version 2.0 | Version 1.0 |
| Instruction Sets | MMX
3DNow! NX X86-64 Pacifica Presidio SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A |
MMX
3DNow! NX X86-64 Pacifica Presidio SSE SSE2 SSE3 |

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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spearhead
06/14/2008
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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 