A First Look at AMD's M2 Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 20, 2006 @03:36PM from the it's-gonna-be-a-photo-finish dept.

Knight Thrasher writes to tell us that Tom's Hardware has an interesting first look at AMD's AM2 platform. From the article: "While Intel will be answering later this year with its Merom/Conroe processors, AMD officially says that the introduction of its AM2 platform and DDR2 memory support in the second quarter of this year will be able to maintain its current lead. Unofficially, we know that AMD will launch six dual-core and two single-core AM2 processors on June 6 - later than initially expected but well in time for Intel's Conroe, which will be introduced in September. Tom's Hardware got its hands on a stable engineering sample of an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ for Socket AM2 and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow."

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Re:DDR2? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-20 16:06 · Score: 5, Informative

I know NVidia is already using it on video cards...
nVidia is using GDDR3 which is based of DDR2 and has nothing to do with DDR3 (reference).
Anandtech by Gogo+Dodo · 2006-02-20 17:00 · Score: 5, Informative

I'd rather read the AnandTech article on AM2