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AMD Conquering 3GHz: Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU Review


AMD has just launched a new dual-core processor working at 3GHz speed. Now the top AMD processors run at a higher frequency than the top Intel Core 2 processors. But will this be enough for them to regain their performance leadership? Find out now!

AMD’s major hopes for regaining their success as the processor manufacturer are closely connected with the promising K8L micro-architecture that is due to come in the second half of this year (for details see our article called AMD's Next Generation Microarchitecture Preview: from K8 to K8L). So far AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors can only compete with Intel CPUs in the budget and mainstream price range. AMD has been pursuing very aggressive pricing policy for the last few months, offering their dual-core processors at very attractive prices.


However, this doesn’t prevent AMD from manufacturing the expensive products for hardware enthusiasts as well, such as the Quad FX platform that we have reviewed recently, which includes Athlon 64 FX-7X processors. Although AMD Quad FX platform lost to the competitor solution from Intel, the quad-core Kentsfield CPU, from almost all standpoints, it proved once again to all users out there, that AMD still bears huge engineering potential.

Today AMD made one more step of similar nature: they announced new dual-core Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor. And although this CPU turns out the today’s fastest AMD processors for Socket AM2 systems, we are not expecting it to hit any tremendous heights. The working frequency of the new Athlon 64 X2 6000+ got only 200MHz higher than that of the Athlon 64 FX-62, which loses to top Intel Core 2 processors in almost all the tests. So, the 200MHz seem to be hardly sufficient for successful competition against the today’s performance leaders.

Therefore, the new AMD announcement is primarily curious from the technological rather than performance standpoint, as the company managed to increase the working frequency of its mass 90nm processors with K8 micro-architecture to 3.0GHz. And of course, Athlon 64 X2 6000+ can be of certain interest to the owners of older Socket AM2 systems, as a great upgrade option, although not the best one from the price-to-performance prospective, because of the $459 price AMD is asking for this new processor.

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Νέος επεξεργαστής Athlon 64 X2 6000+


H AMD παρουσίασε επίσημα το νέο επεξεργαστή της, τον Athlon 64 X2 6000+. Πρόκειται για το μοντέλο με τις καλύτερες επιδόσεις σε desktop, της εταιρίας. Ο επεξεργαστής ωστόσο, δεν φέρνει ασύγκριτες επιδόσεις ή πολύ χαμηλή κατανάλωση. Παρόλα αυτά όμως, η τιμή του είναι σε σχετικά χαμηλό επίπεδο, κάτι που δείχνει τον σκληρό ανταγωνισμό που αντιμετωπίζει η AMD από την Intel.

Ο επεξεργαστής χρονίζεται στα 3.0GHz, και περιέχει 2MB L2-cache μνήμη συνολικά (1MB ανά πυρήνα), υποστηρίζει μνήμη dual-channel και καταναλώνει 125W. Το chip ακολουθεί την πλατφόρμα AM2 και υποστηρίζει όλες τις τελευταίες τεχνολογίες της AMD.
Συγκριτικά με τον E6600 φαίνεται να τα πηγαίνει ελάχιστα πιο γρήγορα, ενώ σε σύγκριση με τον E6700 είναι αρκετά πιο αργός. Ωστόσο η τιμή του υπολογίζεται στα $464/1000 τεμάχια, ενώ του E6700 στα $530 και του Ε6600 στα $316.
Επιπλέον η AMD παρουσιάζει νέα μοντέλα μονοπύρηνα, με κατανάλωση 45W, τα 3500+ και 3800+, που χρησιμοποιούν την τεχνολογία 65nm και κοστίζουν $88 και $93 αντίστοιχα.

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