AMD saved the best for last: 2.3GHz Athlon 6500 Kuma
By Stephanie Patterson 
posted Sep 24th 2008 4:02PM
posted Sep 24th 2008 4:02PM
Well it only took about a year and some change, but that "Kuma" processor we've all been waiting for has finally arrived as the latest edition to the "Stars" family: the 2.3GHz Athlon 6500. Expreview, who recently got their hands on one of the chips, is touting it to be AMD's "best dual core ever" after a benchmark test where it ranked highest in overall performance against the Brisbane 2.6MHz and 2.3MHz Athlon64 X2 5000+. The Kuma also held its own with overclocking, easily reaching 3GHz at default voltage, and hitting 3.4GHz with a voltage increase. A 20W higher power consumption was noted as the primary con, with conjectures that it might be an "Agena with two cores disabled." The 65nm chip offers HT3.0 support, DDR2-1066 support via an integrated controller, Cool'n'Quiet 2.0, a shared 2MB L3 cache, includes SSE4A support, and will retail for around $110 when it hits store shelves.[Via PC Perspective]
Thats wonderful. I hope they go back to the good old days and start giving intel a run for its money on the higher end. Now if we could only get some quad core 45nm....
Lol...2.6MHz and 2.3MHz...I believe that's supposed to be GHz...
"The 65nm chip offers HT3.0 support, DDR2-1066 support via an integrated controller, Cool'n'Quiet 2.0, a shared 2MB L3 cache, includes SSE4A support, and will retail for around $110 when it hits store shelves."
Looks like a dual core Phenom, just with a different name.