AMD Dual-Core Toledo Socket939 CPU-Z Pciture

[R.Rabbit]

i know its a bit crazy wanting more than 4.4ghz combined, but does anyone have any idea on how these might overclock with the two cores? would they overclock simultaneously or seperatly, would they need real good air cooling to get responable temps?

it would be a pretty good guess to say that these oc simultaniously because the share a memory controller, and being a new core design(1.3v @ 2.2ghz ), they probably oc pretty well as long as your cooling can take the wattage these babies will put out, as for if you need good air to get reasonable temps.. AMD would say so, but they have a different definition of reasonable temps! so who know..

[kryptobs2000]

I'd think these should overclock not much worse than single cores as long as temps don't become a problem. And it dosn't look like they'd be much hotter, putting out only 95w compared to an venice or so, which as stated, is close to 100w as well. Hell.. maybe it's possible they'd even overclock better. I really doubt that but they do run alot cooler (comparably).

[J-Mag]

I'd think these should overclock not much worse than single cores as long as temps don't become a problem.

Why would you think this? There are obviously more transistors, so that means there are more possible points of failure. As long as the chips are manufactured with the same process single cores on avg will always clock higher than dual cores, IMO. However, if running only single threaded benchmarks, you might see similar clocks since the other half of the transistors won't be touched.

[Fairydust]

Just when I finally decided to buy a San Diego when they become available, this pops up. Guess I'll get a Venice 3200+ and save my money for the Dual cores.

[kryptobs2000]

Why would you think this? There are obviously more transistors, so that means there are more possible points of failure. As long as the chips are manufactured with the same process single cores on avg will always clock higher than dual cores, IMO. However, if running only single threaded benchmarks, you might see similar clocks since the other half of the transistors won't be touched.

Cause a single one of these (afaik you can't really have a 'single' one since they are on the same die but yunno what I mean) should be better than a single venice/san diego. So... just speculation.. dind't mean to sound like gf4ti

[Pjotr]

And the new name for the Athlon 64 dual core CPU is:

Athlon 64 X2

Hexus.net can exclusively reveal that the CPU is to be named the AMD Athlon 64 X2. It will be available at least in the following models:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+

The flagship AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ will have both its cores operating at 2.4GHz, the same frequency as the AMD Athlon 64 4000+, and we'll be surprised if this doesn't rape the already impressive Pentium Extreme Edition 840 we reviewed here.

I have to agree. And what a simple, yet genious name!

[kryptobs2000]

I don't like the pr values at all. how does a dual core 2.4ghz get to 4800+? That makes no sense. It should simply be called a X2 4000+ or something.

[terrace215]

I don't like the pr values at all. how does a dual core 2.4ghz get to 4800+? That makes no sense. It should simply be called a X2 4000+ or something.

I don't think it matters.

X2 is cool, though.

[terrace215]

The Opteron dual cores are called Egypt, Italy and Denmark (8, 2, 1 series) and have 1 MB L2 per core. The Toledo (dual core A64 new brand name) is 512 kB per core.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...18_608,00.html

Where do you get the 512KB per core from?

And in that case, WHAT was tested here, at 2.4GHz, 2 x 1MB L2, socket 939 ???

http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/1193/1.html

[Fairydust]

I don't like the pr values at all. how does a dual core 2.4ghz get to 4800+? That makes no sense. It should simply be called a X2 4000+ or something.

Well to me a 4800+ at 2.4 x2 would be welcome. The current PR names are simply for comparison with Intel chips and have no relation to actual processor speed. As Intel entered the realm of useless designations, AMD can return to designations resembling the real speed, although you have to divide by 2.

[$a1Ty]

for the people discussing the temps here, remember that although the watts given out will increase so has the size of the die, we'll have to wait and see how hot they run, and also depending on the program your running will be rare that both cores are at 100%

[kryptobs2000]

Well to me a 4800+ at 2.4 x2 would be welcome. The current PR names are simply for comparison with Intel chips and have no relation to actual processor speed. As Intel entered the realm of useless designations, AMD can return to designations resembling the real speed, although you have to divide by 2.

I just realized 4800+/2 = 2400mhz lol. I see where they get it now. I was thinking they were trying to compare it to a 4800mhz p4 or something. Which it would probably beat anyways

[ozzimark]

i think it may actually be in comparision to an a64 chips for once.. the fact that it's 4800+ for a 2400mhz chip is awfully suspicious

[Orthogonal]

i think it may actually be in comparision to an a64 chips for once.. the fact that it's 4800+ for a 2400mhz chip is awfully suspicious

I never even put that simple observation together but that makes total and perfect sense.

[BleakVoid]

According to the roadmap, it would seem that the A64-FX will be using the Toledo core as well...

Though I do know what I want this year...2x 246 X2 Italy cores...

[robberbaron]

According to the roadmap, it would seem that the A64-FX will be using the Toledo core as well...

Though I do know what I want this year...2x 246 X2 Italy cores...

You ought to look at the roadmap again. There is no connection between the A64 FX and "Toledo."

[ozzimark]

the line between the a64 and toledo doesn't connect

edit: snap, i was beat!

[The Coolest]

How about a picture of the chip itself?
If it was dual core, windows should've recognized it as two processors, thus CPU-z should've shown more than just one CPU.
Also the 20FB1 is also weird. On 130nm, FB* CPUID would represent an s939 256KB L2 part, the Paris (physical 256KB L2). But this one has a strange BrandID, regular desktop A64s have BrandID of 4, this one has 5, it also has 512KB of L2 instead of 256KB.
Its odd. we'll have to just wait and see what that chip is.

[Cossey]

the pr rating may also give and idea of cost next to the curent single cores. the pr ratings are all high so expects costs to be higher than the top of the range single cores

[sxs112]

new update

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&page=1&pp=25

[furyfax]

Nice!

[The Coolest]

Ok, with this update everything makes more sense.
I'm just not sure its a Toledo. There are two types of s939 Dual Core chips, one with 1MB of L2 and the other (this one) with 512KB. One of them is Toledo, the other one is something else, I wonder which is which.
Any chance we could see a pic of the CPU itself, or at least the OPN code and stepping?

[furyfax]

I would like to see a SUPERPI test, if that is possible..

[sxs112]

I would like to see a SUPERPI test, if that is possible..

[furyfax]

Is the MP locked ?