As everyone knows,AMD has been suffering from financial issues since their “Brisbane” era,thereby AMD has inevitably take off their main interest from the extreme high end segment.You know,Phenom II 900 series indeed cannot be comparable with i7,instead they could only be opposed to C2Q architecture.
Contrary,the existing Athlon X2 7000 could only be compared with Intel’s Pentium(Wolfdale 2M) variants.Which makes the scene tremendously pathetic,thats why AMD has rolled out the new cutdown version of Deneb with 2 defective cores,namely Callisto and Regor.While what’s arrouses us is Regor’s standing for twice as big the L2 caches than Callisto,however Regor does not features L3 caches,thus makes it to lose some aggressiveness under the benchies.When comes to Callisto,it’s a striped-down version from Deneb architecture,what’s pleasing us would be the 6MB
[Regor] Twice the L2 caches of Callisto
[Callisto]With 6MB of L3 cache,a sweet point.
Test-bed configuration
For socket AM3
- Mainboard: Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Socket AM3, AMD 790FX + SB750, DDR3 SDRAM).
- Memory: Mushkin 996601 4GB XP3-12800 (2 x 2 GB, DDR3-1600 SDRAM, 7-7-7-20).
For LGA775
- Mainboards:
- ASUS P5Q Pro (LGA775, Intel P45 Express, DDR2 SDRAM);
- ASUS P5Q3 (LGA775, Intel P45 Express, DDR3 SDRAM).
- Memory: GEIL GX24GB8500C5UDC (2 x 2 GB, DDR2-1067 SDRAM, 5-5-5-15).
As overall,the new striped-down Deneb does not makes itself standsout within the dual cores segment,instead it only shorten the gap and full-filling their competitive strength in the low end segment.Terms of price,the Athlon/Phenom II does really makes its bait to consumer from using them.Price ranging from RM150-390 should be a very great bargain for low to mid end user who wants ample computational power.However,it does not means that AMD had did a great job,they still have a tremendous rivals for the i7 architecture,which really distinguish them from the flagships.
For user who wants a powerful dual core CPU,Phenom II and Athlon II could be a great performer instead of the previous AMD Athlon X2 6200+ BE and LE series.
Source: Xbitlabs
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