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AMD Athlon 64-M Picture Transpired.

Category: Mobile

by Anton Shilov

[ 08/19/2003 | 12:57 PM ]

AMDMB.com web-site has published its QuakeCon 2003 coverage with quite a lot of interesting AMD-related information including the first picture of AMD Athlon 64-M processor for mobile computers.

The chip is just a Socket 754 CPU without heat-spreader and with 3300BE model number. The performance rating suggests that the chip may be as powerful as Intel Mobile Pentium 4 3.06GHz or above, but at this point there is no information about its cache size or core-clock, hence, we cannot make any clams regarding this fact. In case the mobile Athlon 64-M processors have 1MB of L2 and run at about 2.0GHz core-clock, the CPUs will be capable of outperforming 3.06GHz Mobile Pentium 4 with 533MHz QPB and without HyperThreading technology.

Currently we also do not know if the AMD Athlon 64-M chips feature new additional power-saving technologies in addition to those that are currently found in Athlon XP-M processors.

The appearance of a picture of a real AMD Athlon 64-M processor for applications with lowered power consumption means that AMD is serious about such chips and will release them on time this September 23^rd.

Check out other interesting stories from QuakeCon at AMDMB.com here.