This enables AMD to quickly get rid of all those Denebs with bad 元 cache, and increases the maximum stock overclocking limits, which is always a good thing to see in early reviews. The lower the operating voltage, lower the overall power consumption.įirst batches, like our Athlon II X4 620, will come at higher operating voltage, around 1.40V. The trick is in core voltage which for Athlon II X4 ranges from 0.925V to 1.425V. It is a bit surprising to see AMD not using any marketing tricks and declare it with lower TDP. The consumption measurements will surely show lower values than Phenom II X3 or X4. What's interesting to see, is that although Propus is missing an 元 cache, the TDP is still declared at 95W, like many Phenom II X3 and X4 models.
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It's not a Black Edition, so the only way to overclock this processor is by increasing the HT value, while downclocking can still be achieved by lowering the bus multiplier. The frequency for this model is set to 2.60 GHz using upwards locked 13.0x bus multiplier.
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It is primarily designed for socket AM3 motherboards, but any AM2+ motherboard with proper BIOS update will support these processors, like with any other Athlon II/Phenom II. It comes with an integrated dual-channel memory controller, with support for both DDR2 1066 MHz and DDR3 1333 MHz memory standards.
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So yes, it is a Deneb without 元, and yes, some bins could be 元 cache unlockable if AMD used Deneb cores with locked 元 cache to meet the market demands or to get rid of some cores that can't qualify for Phenom II processors.Īs for our Athlon II X4 620, it is based on a K10.5 architecture like any other Phenom II or Athlon II processor. Unlike the Regor core design where AMD tried to make up for lost 元 cache memory by upping the L2 cache to 1 MB per core, Propus comes with stock 512 KB L2 cache memory per core. Its main competitor for the time being will be, by now little outdated, Intel's Q8x00 series, but we will go through that comparison a bit later in tests. It is designed to offer decent performance in all kinds of applications at a very low price point, for a quad core processor. I digress.Image courtesy of mAJORD from XtremeSystems.
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and more importantly what software will be used with the CPUs the real world performance difference could be almost nothing to somewhere around 10-15x as fast. Once you take into account faster clock speeds, number of cores, cache sizes, integrated memory controllers, etc. Which means that an Ivy Bridge CPU at the same speed as a Conroe CPU (2006ish) is about 2x as fast per clock cycle, on average. So if we start back at Conroe and work our way to present day Ivy Bridge, that's 5 new generations of processors. Just for a rough order of magnitude I figure an average of 15% increase in performance per clock cycle, per generation (not including clock speed, number of cores, etc.). AmdfangirlSometimes I wish you updated legacy CPUs like the Core 2 Duo or even perhaps the Athlon 64 X2 series, just one or two models so that people upgrading can have an idea how much faster the CPU is in relation to their new purchase.Īgreed, maybe just one dual core and one quad? q9550 and e6850? not that I still own both of those or anything.īut let's do some math.