First picture of a 0.09 Athlon64

[Didou]

Taken from -> X86-Secret.com



Click on image for full size picture.

 

[Arris]

Now the next question is what clock speed will that go upto on the 90nm process?

2.6-2.8Ghz A64 sure would be nice.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

And the next question, how will this affect the temperatures? Smaller die size means smaller area that conducts heat..

 

[Arris]

Originally posted by Mictlantecuhtli
And the next question, how will this affect the temperatures? Smaller die size means smaller area that conducts heat..

I'm sure coolermaster will just bring out a copper heatpipe multifanned heatsink that takes up half a server case and we'll be alright

 

[Viet0ne]

Well the question i wanna know is how much more will it cost?

I already paid a good 500 for my XP3200+ last year and clocked it at 2.6 stable. If they offer a reasonable price for these processors then im willing to speng a grand next year for upgrades.

 

[agissi]

Those are so big thats crazy. In the future, if we have 50MB L2 Cache, does that mean our cpus will actually be bigger? I thought things get smaller over time - in our industry anyways.

 

[Didou]

I wonder when they'll release a Socket-754 Athlon64 running at 2.4GHZ. They allready released it for the Athlon64-FX but that doesn't mean they have good yields with it yet.

 

[Rick]

Why no heat spreaders? Hmmm...

 

[agissi]

When is the Socket 8XX coming out? Its ment to be a much more highend version of the A64, I recall reading the 7XX was going to be a more budge version.

 

[Didou]

The heatspreader was removed on purpose to show the size of the die. The final chips based on whichever core will have a heatspreader.

& Agissi, I think you mean Socket-939. It should come out around the end of this month.

 

[Didou]

New picture

512K of L2 @ 83mm²

 

[Didou]

After the picture, a first benchmark on a 0.09 Athlon64 (3500+)

AMD 3500+ S939 2.2G L2=512KB Rev : D0 90nm First TEST

Apparently AMD is using the 0.09 die shrink to add more features rather then just shrink the Die.

At least that's what is reported HERE.

• Full SSE3 implementation (?)
• Improved hardware data prefetch mechanism
• Increased number of writing combine buffers (D0 stepping A64's can now combine up to four non-cacheable streams compared to 2 o_n the C0 and CG stepping A64's)
• Improved o_n-die memory controller with more advanced open page policy
• O_n-die thermal throttling
• Black Diamond Low-K technology (slower less power hungry transistors in less used sections and faster and more power hungry transistors in frequently used sections of the cpu)
• Furthermore the new D0 A64s can convert LEA intructions into ADD instructions in certain situations wich can then be executed in a single clock cycle wich should also give a performence boost in some apps

This should be interesting.

 

[Didou]

Review of a 0.09 3500+ Athlon64 on Socket-939 (BabelFish translated)

It runs a little bit hotter then a 0.13 3500+ but not that much.

 

[agissi]

kool didou thx