L3 cash-less quad and tri core
AMD is about to officially launch its heavily delayed Propus quad-core CPU that lacks L3 in its native design. The company plans to brand this CPU Athlon II X4 600 generation and of course this is a 45nm design. Propus was originally expected in early 2009, but for some reason it's been delayed all the way to September.
The top speed of this CPU at launch is 2.8GHz and it only
comes with 4x512KB L2 cache, total of 2MB but lacks L3 cache memory completely.
This might be one of the smallest quad cores, at least from AMD, as L3 memory
takes up a large portion of the CPU. Faster iterations might come later.
Rana is based on Propus and it’s a three core with 1.5MB L2
cache, no L3 cache and the top speed of 2.9GHz with a possibility to come at
higher speeds. The launch time is September and the brand around it is Athlon
II X3 400. We at least can expect that both these CPUs might end up cheap.
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