Comments for: 45nm Phenom power consumption tested

#27. Posted at 10:36 AM on Jul 25th 2008

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shank15217

As the process matures, the power envelop will drop. Look at the power consumption differences of the newer Phenom 9950 and 9850. Anandtech showed that the newer Phenom consumes less power even though it has a higher TDP.

#27, If this were generally true, then I don't see why AMD raised... : Anonymous Coward (#30) «

#30, 90nm is already forgotten and abandoned, AMD is just late... : ish718 (#32) «

#30, I am not sure why they raised their Thermal Design Power ... : shank15217 (#33) «

#5. Posted at 05:54 PM on Jul 24th 2008

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Joel H.

Data8504,

IPC performance should increase modestly compared to Phenom, thanks to larger cache sizes and the various efficiency tweaks AMD has said it will introduce.

#5, Yeah... but architectural innovation is what's required. Add... : data8504 (#7) «

#7, A lot more cache can do an awful lot to keep the cpu's pr... : WaltC (#13) «

#13, most likely due to the previous generation chips where ... : green (#24) «

#13, Core2 didn't have a IMC and thus was FSB limited, that... : moritzgedig (#31) «

#7, Yeah, but if you a even the recent Phenom X4 9950, it has... : Lans (#14) «

#14, Yes, the Core 2s have more L2, but the L2's in the Cor... : Staypuft (#18) «

#2. Posted at 05:37 PM on Jul 24th 2008

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bowman

Just a shrink, and more cache.

#2, Shrink + Cache is a failure waiting to happen. This would ha... : Master Kenobi (#28) «

#28, Given how it went at 65nm, AMD had better just stick to s... : Anonymous Coward (#29) «

#20. Posted at 04:09 AM on Jul 25th 2008, Edited at 04:40 AM on Jul 25th 2008

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maroon1

So, 45nm Phenom will compete with the G0 stepping 65nm processors from Intel in terms of power consumption ?!

#20, sounds like the take home message to me. : Ruiner (#26) «

#21. Posted at 04:27 AM on Jul 25th 2008

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L1veSkull

Anyone else catch this? From the second page " Power-saving 12% AMD 45 nano-four nuclear power the world's first test"

#21, The link here goes to the Google-translated version of the p... : echo_seven (#25) «

#10. Posted at 06:23 PM on Jul 24th 2008

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ish718

How about performance improvements? Their acting like power consumption is the main concern.
I wanna see some gaming benchmarks GODDAMIT!

#10, What performance improvements? : Meadows (#19) «

#19, You just hate on everything amd and ati dont you? BTW 45n... : L1veSkull (#22) «

#22, You don't know the first thing about me; I'm a Phenom ... : Meadows (#23) «

#1. Posted at 05:33 PM on Jul 24th 2008

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data8504

Is the 45nm rev just a dumb shrink, or can we expect any improvement in per-clock performance? If no improvements are planned, I don't even think a 3.4 GHz Phenom's going to do the dew.

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#4, You're very right... I just wish the soda companies were ... : data8504 (#6) «

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#6, Mountain Dew != Sierra Mist. Mountain Dew == Mellow Ye... : Corrado (#12) «

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#15, Oof! I was more relating the names... Point well ... : data8504 (#16) «

#1, Expect higher IPC. The L3 cache is 48-way associative instea... : wingless (#17) «

#8. Posted at 06:02 PM on Jul 24th 2008

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pikaporeon

Where did they find a quad core thats only 40C under -load-?

#8, At referrence at their labs, perhaps the lab was so cold. : pogsnet (#9) «

#3. Posted at 05:41 PM on Jul 24th 2008, Edited at 08:23 AM on Jul 25th 2008

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burntham77

24W drop at full load vs the 65nm Phenoms? Sold!