AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:46AM from the kicking-the-tires-lighting-the-fires dept.

Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

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LMAO this is ludicrous by stud9920 · 2007-02-20 04:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Even if we paid Indians $1 an hour, at a rate of even 100 transistors per hour, this would cost $2m to make one of them and this is not counting material. How many government agencies can afford that ?