AMD Company due to current situation was forced to reveal some characteristics of processors generation K8L, and we heard, that four core processor barcelona will work on only lower frequencies in comparison with the present dual cores processors opteron.
Let us note that the observance of the thermal budget for AMD in the server segment was always the priority tasks, and exceptions were only for working stations segment - here it was possible to reveal the processors opteron with level TDP on the order of 125 W. Consequently, four core processor barcelona had to become not the hottest representatives of generation K8L
It became later known that for the four core desktop processors athlon 64 X4 (Agena) was selected the frequency range 2.4-2.6 GHz, in this case the value TDP remains at sufficiently high level - 125 W. two cores of four possible processors kuma with has the divided cache in the second level with volume 2mb. obtained greater freedom in the frequency potential - from 2.0 GHz to 2.9 GHz with the retention OF TDP not more than 89 W.
Does this indicate that four core processors K8L cannot get the frequency of more than 2.6 GHz? Associates this time transferred to us the characteristics of processors AMD generation K8L. They explain, that the processors of class athlon 64 FX (Agena FX) socket F+ with the passage to the architecture K8L can operate at frequencies of 2.7-2.9 GHz, which is perceptibly higher than the frequency range of desktop processors athlon 64 X4. It is completely natural that for the platform 4x4, in composition of which are used the processors athlon 64 FX, and in the following half-year will play the role of the high end CPU from AMD. For this will be used all way to the 65 NM CPU to achieve the four core processors with default frequencies of 2.7-2.9 GHz. It is possible to assume that AMD will go in the form of increased heat level emission as Intel with Prescott CPU ....