In New Delhi: AMD has unveiled new Athlon II and Phenom II processors. It has added five new 45 nm process made dual-core, tri-core and quad-core chips to its existing AMD lineup.
All these new chips claims to offer 100MHz higher clockspeeds at the same price point. The Athlon chips does not have any L3 caches and that differentiates them from Phenom II chips.
According to the company, Athlon II X2 255 dual-core chip with 1MB L2 Cache is clocked at 3.1GHz, which is higher than the tri-core 3.0GHz Athlon II X3 440 chip with 1.5MB L2 cache.
The quad-core Athlon II X4 635, on the other side is clocked at 2.9GHz with 2MB L2 cache. Athlon II X2 is priced at $74, Athlon II X3 at $84 and Athlon II X4 is at $119, informs the company.
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