Agena will be one of the most important 65nm processors to AMD when it arrives on the Socket AM2 market. The processor is based on the Barcelona architecture and come with four physical processor cores. At Fudzilla they claim to have gotten their hands on one of AMD’s Agena processors and this processor is working at 1.9GHz, with 512KB L2 cache per core and a 2MB L3 cache to share. The processor’s 65nm technology makes it possible for AMD to use voltages as low as 1.273V at this speed. According to Fudzilla, 1.9GHz is far from the max of what this architecture can do. By increasing the voltage marginally to 1.297V they managed to overclock the processor to 3042MHz, a 62% overclock completely stable with just air cooling.
If this turns out to be correct things are looking very promising for AMD’s new Barcelona architecture and even if 3.1GHz is hardly an impressive clock frequency it’s the overclocking margin that is the most interesting here. Especially as this is a preproduction sample.
