Some Initial Thoughts on Propus, AMD's Quad-core Athlon

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Recently the first die shot of the upcoming Propus class of processors

showed up, and I took a good long look at it to figure out how it will

affect AMD's lineup, and if it will be the next big thing in the budget quad

core market. From what I have seen, things look surprisingly good...

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=737

 

Quote: "The last thing that needs covered here is the potential TDP of these

products. Since the Propus core is around 60% of the size of the Phenom II,

we can expect the lower 2.4 GHz versions to be around 65 watts TDP, and

potentially as low as 45 watts TDP. The higher 3 GHz version would probably

hit around 89 watts in the worst case scenario. Something else to consider

is that with the continual advances on GF's 45 nm process, and the lack of

large caches on the chip, we may even see TDPs dip into the 75 watt area for

a 3 GHz part."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com