What's going on... 64-3200, FX? WHAT?

[Foxie3a]

I havn't been paying attention to AMD for a while, and all thisstuff caught me by surprise.

So the 64bit 3200 is what compared to a normal 3200? Is it the new core but the same speed?

And what's this new FX stuff? Is that like their new generation? If so, no wonder they beat the P4 in a lot, Intel hasn't even released the P5 yet, and won't for a while.

[c627627]

Athlon 64 running at just 2.2 GHz may be roughly equivalent to Athlon XP running at 2.8 GHz, all in all.

Check out this sticky for the rest of them:
http://www.overclock.net/showthread.php?t=168

[Foxie3a]

Wow. So even a Mobile 2500 can't really catch upto those 64bit guys.

What is that newcastle? It seems like its comming out later, but its not as good.

[c627627]

Not as good?
Where it says Socket 754 and Socket 939, those are different types of mobos you would need. Socket 939 will be dual channel. It will be very expensive until 2005.

[Foxie3a]

Dual channel?

You mean SMP?

So the New Castle is the SMP version of the Fx series?

[I.M.O.G.]

No. Dual channel references the RAM interface, and it increases memory bandwidth over single channel.

The newcastle is a 939 pin CPU, whereas the current A64's are 754 pin CPU's, FX's are 940 pin CPUs with a bigass on-die cache.

Heavily overclocked mobiles get beat solidly in benchmarks by A64's right now.

The newcastle is in no way going to be not as good - except for the fact that it won't be cheap when it comes out.

Socket 754 is the short term basically, 939 will be around longer and will likely see a herd moving to it late this year or early next - that seems to be what most believe on when prices will be best.

[c627627]

Remember, in their wisdom, AMD code named 'Newcastle' both 754 and 939 Athlon 64 cores with 512 KB cache.