Wednesday, March 14th 2007
Let's talk about the K10
Everyone is talking about Barcelona - not the city, the server processor version of AMD's K10 architecture. As Fuad from Fudzilla.com is pointing out, only a fraction of us will invest money in that type of CPUs. So let's talk about the desktop version:
Starting from the Barcelona it sounds very logical that there will be two quad-core desktop versions. The Athlon 64 X4 (2MB shared L3-Cache, codename 'Agena') and the Athlon 64 FX (2MB shared L3, codename 'Agena FX'). There will be a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 ('Kuma'), it's unknown how much cache this will have implemented and last but not least there might be a single-core Athlon 64 ('Rana').
Some of the improvements of the K10 architecture are a faster HyperTransport solution (HT 3.0 up to 4GHz) and improved power saving modes (you don't need a driver anymore for it to work). Both will be supported by the new AM2+ platform. It remains to be seen if the new CPUs will be drop in compatible to existing sockets (losing the HT3 speeds and new Cool'n'Quiet features of course).
Btw.: Fuad is talking about 'Budapest' as well which is a 1xxx Opteron supporting a single socket only.
Update:
After writing this post it came to my attention that there are several more websites knowing something about the K10. In a German forum called Effizienzgurus you will find some more news regarding the whole lineup of processors.
Source:
Fudzilla.com
Starting from the Barcelona it sounds very logical that there will be two quad-core desktop versions. The Athlon 64 X4 (2MB shared L3-Cache, codename 'Agena') and the Athlon 64 FX (2MB shared L3, codename 'Agena FX'). There will be a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 ('Kuma'), it's unknown how much cache this will have implemented and last but not least there might be a single-core Athlon 64 ('Rana').
Some of the improvements of the K10 architecture are a faster HyperTransport solution (HT 3.0 up to 4GHz) and improved power saving modes (you don't need a driver anymore for it to work). Both will be supported by the new AM2+ platform. It remains to be seen if the new CPUs will be drop in compatible to existing sockets (losing the HT3 speeds and new Cool'n'Quiet features of course).
Btw.: Fuad is talking about 'Budapest' as well which is a 1xxx Opteron supporting a single socket only.
Update:
After writing this post it came to my attention that there are several more websites knowing something about the K10. In a German forum called Effizienzgurus you will find some more news regarding the whole lineup of processors.
27 Comments on Let's talk about the K10
VS.
Opetron 1268SE (2.30GHz) at 120W TPD
OR
QX6700 (2.66GHz) @ TPD 130W
VS
Opetron 1270SE (2.5GHz) @ TPD 120W
Regardless of how it performs that's a bit hot IMO. And, we haven't scratched the surface on over clocking yet...
Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915), two Quad-Opterons and two R600 full-length cards.
What's the difference between Barcelona and Argena beside the socket, btw?Imagine CAD or video editing with that ... drool
That 120W is less than double of the X2' 65W:D
anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2939
Intel rates theirs by TYPICAL loads, AMD rates it by the maximum the processor will ever put out.
*prays AM2+ chips work in AM2...*
interesting how frequencies are odd numbers. 333 base clock speed with half-multipliers?
6.65 kW... that'd be a roflcopter and a half :)
Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915),
not the system power comsuption
and look at how big the psu is
:/