Tuesday, July 11, 2006
AMD's response to Kentsfield: FX-64 5200 at 65W only
4x4 strategy based on low power consumption FX-64 will put AMD's top performance ahead of Kentsfield's in Q4 this year !. Thus, 2 AMD's FX-64 at 65W each could fit into advanced BTX board 135W TDP !.
Two 65W FX-64 at US$541 each is some $1082. Quite price competitive to later Kentsfield.
And performance competitive to ill fated Nehalem. Two times 5200+ is 10400+. Equivalent to Nehalem clock in Mhz, right? 4 issues per clock and that is some 40 000 MFLOPS at 2.6Ghz , better than Kentsfield Whetstone of 37232 at 2,9Ghz.
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