AMD Gears Up for 3.2GHz Athlon

July 24th 2007 | CPUs & Chipsets

It seems that the era of the Athlon 64 X2 will end with a product with numbered 6400+.

The highest-numbered model you can buy today is the 6000+. The 200MHz clock bump will yield a 400 PR mark increase, in line with AMD’s policy of, um, exaggerated calibration.

This processor is expected to go up against Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6850, which is nothing but a first Core 2 Extreme with a faster FSB - 1.33GHz instead of the 1.06GHz of yesteryear.

Preliminary benchmarks put the 3.2GHz Athlon above the 2.66GHz C2D E6700, but it comes a bit late, and performance is likely to be lower than that of the E6850.

the Inquirer

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AMD Gears Up for 3.2GHz Athlon
Published in: CPUs & Chipsets on 2007-07-24