AMD to lower power usage of 45nm processors
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AMD's 45nm processors are expected to see core frequencies greatly increased, while L3 cache sizes will grow from 2MB to 6MB. Power consumption of the cache will also see a significant drop, noted the sources.
AMD Phenom Quad Core Processor AM2+
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AMD will be preparing to attack the market more agressively in 2008. Their Tri-Core processors, which will be due out 2nd quarter of this year, is said to be cheaper than Intel's Core 2 Duo. And sure enough, we'll find out whether these Tri-Core CPUs will mean better peformance than the Dual Cores. There's also AMD's flagship high-end processor, the Phenom FX, which have yet to be released. On top of that, AMD have just released their highest performing graphics card in the form of the Radeon HD3870x2. It uses 2 RV670 GPUs on a single PCB, with Crossfire configuration already configured and ready to go. Preliminary tests have shown that the HD3870x2 looks very promising.