Athlon 64 90nm Benchmarks

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
Xtremesystems.org has the scoop on AMD's upcoming 90nm Athlon 64s

Some Benchmarks are linked here (56K users Beware)
The 90nm A64 is not a simple die shrink but features several enhancements, such as:

* Full SSE3 implementation
* Improved hardware data prefetch mechanism
* Increased number of writing combine buffers (D0 stepping A64's can now combine up to four non-cacheable streams compared to 2 on the C0 and CG stepping A64's)
* Improved on-die memory controller with more advanced open page policy
* On-die thermal throttling
* Black Diamond Low-K technology (slower less power hungry transistors in less used sections and faster and more power hungry transistors in frequently used sections of the cpu)


Furthermore the new D0 A64s can convert LEA intructions into ADD instructions in certain situations wich can then be executed in a single clock cycle wich should also give a performence boost in some apps.
Source: Xtremesystems.org

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    Wow... can't wait till my next computer system is built :D
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2004
    These are the CPU we;ve been waiting for. An A64 that'll OC to 2.6ghz (or better) will outdo anything Intel can offer, either stock or OC'd.
  • FAH_WWFAH_WW Training in Indianapolis, IN
    edited July 2004
    I am pondering whether I should buy a machine or not - my decision was made already based on having been made redundant, but it SURE sounds like the A64 90nm will be on my short list - probably very, very short :-)
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2004
    Reports on the Web are that the 90nm CPUs will start showing up Q4/Q1 2005. Around this same time frame the A64 PCI-E mobos will also appear
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