AMD will launch its first 65nm processors soon and now new information about the specifications for AMD’s new Socket AM2 processors has appeared. According to HKEPC, AMD has namely decided to stick to its new trend of 1MB L2 cache within the Athlon 64 X2 family. Earlier AMD had its Athlon 64 X2 4000+/4400+/4800+ models with 2MB L2 cache (1MB x 2) but these were trashed and instead new 1MB L2-cache (512KB x 2) models were introduced with a more agressive pricing. Now that AMD is planning to launch its new processors with the same PR ratings it has decided to keep using 1MB L2 cache.
But thanks to the Brisbane core’s 65nm technology AMD has chosen to raise the frequencies. The results is that each model will get a 100MHz higher clock frequency compared to the previous 2MB models which could perhaps cancel out the smaller cache.
The new Athlon 64 X2 4000+/4400+/4800+ models has frequencies at 2.1GHz/2.3GHz and 2.5GHz with a TDP at 65W. This has been solved by increasing the multiplier with 0.5x.
Following AMD’s enthusiast platform 4×4 it has also decided to rename all of its current FX models. Regular Athlon 64 FX processors will now be a part of the Athlon 64 X2 family instead and the FX brand will only be used by the enthusiast models which sport dual processors with AMD’s 4×4 platform. In other terms, Athlon 64 FX-64 will be Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and run at 3.0GHz with 2MB L2-cache.
