The announcement of athlon II X4 6xx processors takes place on this week, but even now on the pages of xtremeSystem it is possible to reveal the photographs of real processors copies regor (Athlon II X2), Propus (Athlon II X4) and Phenom X4 (Agena) .
The located in the middle propus processor has the core area of approximately 168-170 sq. mm, whereas its predecessor with 2 mb cache in the third level agena has the core with 286 sq. mm area. Respectively, the difference in their area reaches 70%. However, if we compare Propus and its nearest analog - four core 45 nm crystal deneb 6 mb cache in the third level, then the area of the latter is equal to 258 sq. mm - the savings of material with cache failure in the third level compose approximately 54%.
It is impossible to unlock the third cache level in the processors series propus , since it physically is absent from the crystal. Related Products :
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