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Originally posted by Eracer @ futuremark....
"x-bit labs has a review of the AMD Venice CPU up. They compare three different revisions (CG, D0, E3) of the Athlon 64 at the 3500+ frequency of 2.2GHz. The performance improvements over Winchester are minor. They did manage to get a fair overclock from it (2.88GHz @ 1.58V).
The new Athlon 64 on Venice core also boast enhanced memory controller. Besides a slight performance improvement, Athlon 64 became more tolerant to various DIMM module configurations. Venice based CPUs have finally learned to work with four double-side memory modules supporting 400MHz.
But the most important advantage of the Athlon 64 processors based on Venice core is the significantly higher frequency potential. This opened new horizons for further AMD processor family development, at the same time giving overclockers got new opportunities for building high-performance systems on the far not the most expensive processors.
As for the drawbacks of the new Venice core, there are hardly any. In other words, if you are planning to buy a Socket 939 CPU, then you definitely have to go for the new core. That’s for sure."
There seem to be some nice clock/clock improvements over winchester and it seems this chip likes to clock high. The 3800+ venice is often faster than the 4000+claw(which has 512KB more L2). I can smell the FX57 around the corner and i might have to get one
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Originally posted by Eracer @ futuremark....
"x-bit labs has a review of the AMD Venice CPU up. They compare three different revisions (CG, D0, E3) of the Athlon 64 at the 3500+ frequency of 2.2GHz. The performance improvements over Winchester are minor. They did manage to get a fair overclock from it (2.88GHz @ 1.58V).
The new Athlon 64 on Venice core also boast enhanced memory controller. Besides a slight performance improvement, Athlon 64 became more tolerant to various DIMM module configurations. Venice based CPUs have finally learned to work with four double-side memory modules supporting 400MHz.
But the most important advantage of the Athlon 64 processors based on Venice core is the significantly higher frequency potential. This opened new horizons for further AMD processor family development, at the same time giving overclockers got new opportunities for building high-performance systems on the far not the most expensive processors.
As for the drawbacks of the new Venice core, there are hardly any. In other words, if you are planning to buy a Socket 939 CPU, then you definitely have to go for the new core. That’s for sure."
There seem to be some nice clock/clock improvements over winchester and it seems this chip likes to clock high. The 3800+ venice is often faster than the 4000+claw(which has 512KB more L2). I can smell the FX57 around the corner and i might have to get one
The know-most-of-it-all formally known as BOBSHACK