Monday, April 10th 2006
AMD Socket-AM2 Performance Preview
AnAndtech says,
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AnandTech
To say that AMD has been uncharacteristically quiet lately would be an understatement of epic proportions. The company that had been so vocal about their K8 architecture in the past will hardly say anything at all about future products, extending even to its forthcoming AM2 platform. In just two months AMD is scheduled to officially unveil its first DDR2 platform (Socket-AM2), but we've heard virtually nothing about performance expectations.As you page through the preview looking at the test results you will come to see that most performance increases are all rather minimal. The memory Bandwidth was increased, but that is to be expected. Why move to a new socket to have only marginal performance increases? It's not like socket 939 AMD processors were memory starved in the first place.
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Or you could do the sensible thing and wait for Conroe.
Until tests are run on the final mobos and CPUs it's all speculation - especially Conroe and friends. I wouldn't put much stock in current reports for any future CPUs.