Published: Thursday 25th September, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Athlon 6500
Companies: AMD (All AMD content)
External reviews: AMD Athlon 6500
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email to a friendIt has been something of a long and arduous journey for AMD's Kuma series of processors, the last of the company's 65nm dual-core parts.
Following lengthy delays and rumours of the chips being shelved - rumours which, we should add, were quickly denied by AMD - the processors are now gearing up for introduction to the market.
Kuma, as you're no-doubt aware, is based on AMD's K10 microarchitecture and will be the final 65nm dual-core chip based on its Star's core. In an interesting turn of events, however, it now appears that AMD won't brand its Kuma parts as Phenom X2 chips. Unlike the tri-core Phenom X3 and quad-core Phenom X4, AMD will be keeping its dual-core processors tagged with its Athlon nomenclature.
One particular Kuma chip, it's claimed is known as the 'Athlon 6500' - yes, that's without the 64 X2 tags - found its way into the hands of 'expreview' and has subsequently been put to the test. Early impressions? Well, the 2.3GHz part is said to easily out-pace the equally-clocked and older Brisbane-based Athlon 64 X2.
The Athlon 6500 is said to overclock to 3GHz easily, with only air cooling. That, then, would make it a very interesting part for a mid-range system.
The chip is already being touted as AMD's "best dual-core ever". Stay tuned...
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interesting...
ATI/AMD managed to take the GPU crown once again is there a chance they may be back on the up for CPUs too?
I guess believe it when we see it is the best way to look.
Phenom Clock for clock is slower than a Core 2 Quad Kentsfield and Yorkfield.
The Kuma will not Clock beyond 3 GHz.
The Wolfdale Core 2 Duo's already clock to 3.33 GHz.
How could AMD make the Kuma faster than a CPU that has a better IPC and a higher clock speed?Quote
i didnt mean this would get them back on top i meant are they back on track.
Ahh I see :)
TBH I doubt this is them being back on track. It's 9 months late.Quote
Ahh I see :)
TBH I doubt this is them being back on track. It's 9 months late.
Depends.. Intel seem to be more or less dropping dual core products altogether - great if they can produce just as fast quads, but usually they're priced higher. A faster dual core is still better than a slower quad in the majority of situations so AMD might have a chance if they keep along the fast dual line.Quote
Depends.. Intel seem to be more or less dropping dual core products altogether - great if they can produce just as fast quads, but usually they're priced higher. A faster dual core is still better than a slower quad in the majority of situations so AMD might have a chance if they keep along the fast dual line.
Intel have The Pentium Dual core, Celeron Dual core, E4000 series (being replaced with E5000 series on 45nm), E6000 Series (replaced with E8000 Series on 45nm)
They have dualies going from the very cheap all the way to the much, much faster than any Dual Core Kuma will ever be already. Even if Kuma hits 3.5 GHz, it will still be slower than an E8400 in general.
AMD's best hope is bulldozer and I really hope they can pull a commanding lead in this one.Quote
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