Turion X2 announced

[kknd1967]

THG Link

Since now it is officially available, I am eager to see some updated benchmarks vs Core Duo.

Questions and observations
- performance may not beat core duo because the clock is only up to 2G
- this may be caused by no individual power management for each core and AMD still have to meet the TDP they had with Turion64. I heard this before. Is there any new update?
- if it does not win performance or performance/watt, it may win in terms of performance/dollar. not bad either for end users 🙂

 

[Accord99]

Here's a review in French:

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/299/page1.php

 

[Dman877]

Are these socket 754 chips? Do they work on typical desktop 754 boards?

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: Dman877
Are these socket 754 chips? Do they work on typical desktop 754 boards?

AMD developed a new socket, Socket1 for these chips. So now, they won't work in a S754 board... unfortunately 🙁

 

[chilled]

Hopefully some desktop S1 boards will appear soon.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Seems like too little too late? Merom is coming in about two months. Still, interesting . . . I wonder how the 35W AM2 X2-3800+ will compare to the TL-60 which is also a 2 ghz part specced for a TDP of 35W. It looks like the TL-60 has the same clock speed as the upcoming 35W X2-3800+ but twice the l2 cache and the same TDP. Hmmmm . . .

 

[ahock]

I think AMD needs a lot of catching up in Mobile space. Thier highest bin is 35W compared to core duo. Performance wise, core duo still leads. Once Merom is released I guess Intel will definitely leap frog AMD on this. Do you know whether AMD ha something up on their sleeve in mobile next year? Sta Rosa is definitely be ok.

 

[jak3676]

Originally posted by: ahock
Do you know whether AMD ha something up on their sleeve in mobile next year?

Just that AMD will move to 65nm (Tyler core). With a little more tweaking that *should* give them an advantage over core duo, but merom will likely be tough to beat if chipzilla can make a nice leap forward again.

Here's another Turion X2 review. This time in english.

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: jak3676

Originally posted by: ahock
Do you know whether AMD ha something up on their sleeve in mobile next year?

Just that AMD will move to 65nm (Tyler core). With a little more tweaking that *should* give them an advantage over core duo, but merom will likely be tough to beat if chipzilla can make a nice leap forward again.

Here's another Turion X2 review. This time in english.

That's also around the time where Intel moves to the Centrino 4 Santa Rosa Platform with DDR2-800 and 800FSB support and I believe mobile 965 Chipset and Wireless. So Merom i slated to have an upgrade by the time Tyler arrives.

 

[kknd1967]

they compare Turion X2 purely with desktop CPUs??? :|
What are they thinking...

Originally posted by: jak3676

Originally posted by: ahock
Do you know whether AMD ha something up on their sleeve in mobile next year?

Just that AMD will move to 65nm (Tyler core). With a little more tweaking that *should* give them an advantage over core duo, but merom will likely be tough to beat if chipzilla can make a nice leap forward again.

Here's another Turion X2 review. This time in english.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: jak3676

Originally posted by: ahock
Do you know whether AMD ha something up on their sleeve in mobile next year?

Just that AMD will move to 65nm (Tyler core). With a little more tweaking that *should* give them an advantage over core duo, but merom will likely be tough to beat if chipzilla can make a nice leap forward again.

Here's another Turion X2 review. This time in english.

Turion X2 vs Turion, Sempron, P4, P4D, A64 X2...... where's the obvious benchmark against the Core Duo? And since this is a mobile processor, where's all the power based benchmarks? Oh man....

Edit: Ah... the title of the article is 'preview'. Ok.

 

[ahock]

note also Sta Rosa/Meron will have Robson......