A64 Winchester 4000+

[dhlucke]

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ & 4000+ (Winchester) is the 90nm successor to the Newcastle Athlon 64 core, expected to be released in September / October. The Athlon 64 3700+ is expected to run at 2.4Ghz and the 4000+ at 2.6Ghz. Both will contain 512Kb L2 cache.

Does anyone have any more information on this or Intel's answer to this processor when it is released?


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[Obtuse]

They will huddle up in a corner saying "make it go away mommie".

"It's too late now anyway. That song is stuck in my head and the only way to get rid of it is to blow it out. With a bullet!! - Carl

 

[dhlucke]

It's just that I've been trying to get info on this for months and nobody knows anything apparently.

It's a month away.

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[endyen]

Hopefully in a month, Intel will be able to ship the 3.6 in quantity.
If they wanted to compete, they could do northwoods on 90 nanos @ 4 gigs, or drop the price of the extremely expensive.

 

[apache_lives]

I agree - It would be great if northwood continued (even at 90nm) - its a great core... nicer then the newer prescot's (not that there that bad... but why bother with heat issues and all new fit components (PCIe, DDR2, S775) when the trusty and proven northwood in still kicking hard)

QUALITY NOT QUANTITY... intel has neither quality or quantity when it comes to prescott - too hot and not fast enough.

Intel's conroe will be coming soon to compete with AMD (maybe) - I WANT DATA ON CONROE!!! All iv heard is its a high performance laptop similar to the centrino's changed for desktop pc's at 65nm with dual core... 4mb cache... better FSB and 64 bit and more - currently the Centrino's beat AMD at there own game (clock for clock there more efficent then AMD - Centrino 1.5ghz = ~1.8 or 2600+) and they consume a hell of lot less power (conroe will be "a laptop chip minus the power saving features, and more power and extra flashy features)... this might be the answer to prescHOT and AMD Athlon64. Oh yes - it uses P6 architecture (used in the pentium pro, 2 and 3)... i should start a new thread on this...

 

[endyen]

Reality check. Here Tom's pits a PM @1.6 against aP4M @2.2
<A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/centrino-16.html" target="_new">http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030205/centrino-16.html</A>
You will no doubt notice that the P4-M wins by only a slight margin. Of course everyone knows that an xp-m 2600+ will totally crush a P4-M 2.2.
WTF is with everyone lately. Sure, the Dothan and Banias chips are great at power saving. That does not mean we should say they are the only "mobile" chip. In fact, since most laptops spend a lot more time pluged in, than on battery, it just aint that important.
Truth is, that they have 50% more pipes than the Amd chips. If you think that makes thier perf at a given speed better than an xp, get a grip.