Athlon II?

[SuperSix]

I see a new AMD Athon II coming - the ADX250OCGQBOX.

AMD Athlon II Dual-Core 250 3.0 GHz L2=512KB/Core L3=1MB Soc AM3 65W PIB

Street price will be about 86.00 or so - Why don't they let "Athlon" die?

I don't understand the naming convention - "250"?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
Why don't they let "Athlon" die?

Same reason Intel won't let "Pentium" die...

Intel® Pentium® Processor E6300

My laptop has a sticker on it that says "Pentium Dual-Core insideTM"...yet it is a core-architecture CPU. Marketing.

 

[SlowSpyder]

It looks like Athlon might become their lower end line up, like the Sempron and Duron before it. They've invested a lot into the name, so it probably can't hurt to keep it around. They have the 9xx quads, 7xx tri cores, 5xx dual core Phenoms and it looks like on the low end the 2xx Athlons. I think their might be an 8xx too, quads with less cache? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SuperSix]

Good info. I see new Sempr0n SKUs too. Well, one - SDH1250DWBOX

 

[LoneNinja]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
It looks like Athlon might become their lower end line up, like the Sempron and Duron before it. They've invested a lot into the name, so it probably can't hurt to keep it around. They have the 9xx quads, 7xx tri cores, 5xx dual core Phenoms and it looks like on the low end the 2xx Athlons. I think their might be an 8xx too, quads with less cache? I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

There already is a Phenom II X4 8XX series.

Athlon II will also fill the 4XX with triple core and 6XX with quad core. Those will have no L3 cache.

 

[waffleironhead]

Is this a k10 derivative?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Is this a k10 derivative?

K10.5...using the 45nm Stars core, not the 65nm K10 Stars core.