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AMD confirms Deneb core in some Athlon IIs |
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Written by Peter Scott
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:53 |
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Uses both Propus and Deneb cores
AMD has confirmed that it used Deneb cores for some of its Athlon II
processors. This comes as no surprise, as many tweakers around the
interweb managed to unlock the disabled L3 cache.
However, some companies have already started using this fact in their
marketing, citing that their motherboards can be used to access the
inactive L3. This might be true of Deneb-based parts, but you will
probably no longer be able to buy them after stock runs out.
Athlon II should have been based on the 169mm Propus die from the
beginning, but for some reason it was delayed and appeared as a
crippled Deneb with a 258mm die. According to some rumours, AMD used
the Propus sied for the energy efficient Athlon II X4 6xxe parts.
Obviously, the significantly reduced die size positively impacts Propus
pricing, and Athlon IIs are currently the cheapest 45nm quad-cores on
the market.
More here.
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