AMD's low-power Phenom X2 GE-series CPUs seen in latest roadmap

AMD's high-powered Phenom lineup should still be residing in the forefront of your memory, but the company has now loosed details on a series of processors that cater to the more energy-conscience crowd. The Phenom X2 GE-series CPUs currently consist of a trio of units, each reportedly scheduled to land sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The chips all sport thermal design power (TDP) ratings of 45-watts, and while the GE-6400 will clock in at 1.9GHz, the GE-6500 adds 200MHz but lags behind the flagship 2.3GHz GE-6600. The whole lot touts 2 x 512KB of L2 cache, 2MB of L3 cache, and an (estimated) 3,200MHz HT3 bus, so go on and start pinching those pennies for the moment these land in a Socket AM2+ motherboard near you.

[GiantDouche Posted Jul 3rd 2007 5:53PM]

what's GE6600 other than it showing up when you search for intel's E6600.

[Mr Ambiguous Posted Jul 3rd 2007 6:10PM]

Copycats, lol.

[fh Posted Jul 3rd 2007 6:14PM]

Phenom will also work with regular AM2 sockets (not just the + version), albeit some motherboards will require a BIOS upgrade to recognize the chip. The AM2+ socket (and the server/workstation 1207+) is just a revision that can unlink CPU and Northbridge speeds for power management.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2007 6:19PM]

Nice.

Prices?

[miles Posted Jul 3rd 2007 7:20PM]

How does it compare to Core 2 processors?

I used to get AMD because it had around the same performance as their Intel cousins for a lot less cash, but with the Core processors Intel has really taken the cake for both.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2007 8:15PM]

From what I've heard, they hardly hold their own compared to Intel's current top quadros. Anyone have some benchmarks?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2007 7:40PM]

Now if only Nvidia and ATI could actually realize that intel and AMD are on the right track in actually lowering power consumption while boosting performance, The power draws on the latest gpu's are just getting ridiculous. When you're SLI set up contributes more to pollution than ur SUV, you know there's problems

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2007 7:55PM]

u know amd owns ati?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2007 8:45PM]

Yes of course, I'm just saying that at least for now they're obviously moving in different direcitons, and ATI (or AMD if you rather) would be better off realizing that power consumption is a major factor for GPU's in addition to CPU's.