EE Times is reporting that AMD will introduce dual-core Opteron 280 and 880 processors in the third quarter of this year. The new chips will run at 2.4GHz, matching the clock speed of AMD’s fastest dual-core desktop processor, the Athlon 64 X2 4800+. Curiously, though, there’s no mention of a 2.4GHz addition to the dual-core Opteron 100 family.
With AMD releasing dual-core Opteron 100-series chips in a 939-pin package, an Opteron 180 running at 2.4GHz would look an awful lot like an Athlon 64 X2 4800+. However, the Athlon 64 X2 family has only a single non-coherent HyperTransport link, while the Opteron 100 series has three non-coherent HT links. The extra HT links aren’t necessary for desktop systems, but workstation/server chipsets like NVIDIA’s latest nForce Pro take advantage of them by plugging multiple chipset components directly into the processor rather than relying on a chipset interconnect.
“but workstation/server chipsets like NVIDIA’s latest nForce Pro take advantage of them by plugging multiple chipset components directly into the processor rather than relying on a chipset interconnect. ”
I didn’t think that the nForce pro required coherent links. I thought coherent links were just for CPU-CPU connections
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I believe that there are no 1xx 2,4 Opterons because yields are not so high for this speed grade and 2xx and 8xx bring in more money.
They also stealth lauched the x54 2.8ghz single core parts
AMD are on a roll.
I think they are timing the announcement of the 2.8GHz Opterons to coincide with Intel’s discussion of their next generation cores.
yeah, wont intel talk about that today?
where? i don’t see em online . . .
[edit] nevermind, they’re at monarch
I am the first one here, and have nothing really productive so say about this.
Well, I do wish my Dual Opteron board supported dual core, but oh well.