Wednesday, July 22nd 2009
AMD Intros Athlon II X2 Models 240 and 245
Nearly six weeks into the introduction of the Athlon II X2 250, AMD added two new models in the series to choose from the Athlon II X2 240 and 245 are clocked at 2.80 GHz and 2.90 GHz respectively, and occupy two lower places in the series. The 240 has a bus multiplier of 14.0x 200 MHz, while 245 is a notch higher, at 14.5x 200 MHz. The chips are based on AMD's 45 nm Regor core, which is a monolithic dual-core, with two physical cores on a die, and no L3 cache. The L2 cache per core instead, has been increased to 1 MB, which makes it 2 MB of total external cache for the chip. It uses a lavish 4.0 GT/s HyperTransport 3.0 system interface, and comes in the AM3 socket package that supports DDR2 and DDR3 memory standards. The two will be out soon and will be priced around the US $65 mark.
18 Comments on AMD Intros Athlon II X2 Models 240 and 245
Unless you know better that their teams of financial planners and strategists. ;)Is it because these chips will use a lot less power than just a crippled quad-core that's been turned into a dual?
As I don't see how competing at the higher profit margin areas would be a bad thing in any way.
Edit: Although, now that I look at it closer, releasing higher models would probably start to hurt the 550 sales, as the 250 and 550 perform pretty similarly already. Though I would still like to see a 260BE...
Edit2: The 245 is already at newegg for $66.99, putting it right there with the E5200.
www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3572&p=5
I seem to want to say the E5200 maxes about at about the same, maybe even higher. For some reason I think 4.0GHz+ might be entirely possible with the E5200. And since the E5200 already comes close to matching the 250, once both are clocked roughly the same I think the E5200 will take it.