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AMD FX 6300 Cpu
AMD FX 6300
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AMD Opteron 254 Cpu
AMD Opteron 254
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Cpu
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
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Intel Core i7 920 Cpu
Intel Core i7 920
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
With several new product releases over the last few weeks, AMD has been on a mission to gain back market share. While Trinity targeted the entry level crowd with a well rounded family of APUs, their Vishera FX-series firmly targets an enthusiast niche that doesn’t need or want onboard graphics...Read more
Six Piledriver cores at 5GHz? Don't mind if I doRead more
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This entry level Core i7 shows the world what Intel can do with their 45nm trickeryRead more
Benchmarks: CINEBENCH. Today marks the release of Intel's latest and greatest processor architecture to date. Meet the new Core i7 920, 940 and 965 Extreme Edition processors based on...Read more
New technology is always incredibly enticing. We've spent the last couple of weeks tinkering with Intel's debuting Core i7 processors, becoming suitably impressed and even getting the 965-Extreme part running at a ferocious 3.7GHz after overclocking.Read more
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General

Processor socketAM3+Socket 940AM4LGA 1366
Component forPC
N/A
PC
N/A
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
N/A
64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.5 GHz2.8 GHz3.6 GHz2.66 GHz
Max turbo speed3.8 GHz
N/A
4.2 GHz2.93 GHz
Number of cores6
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64
Number of threads6
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128
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W
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65.0 W130.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in
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0.0 in0.0 in
Bus type
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QPI
Idle states
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yes

Memory

Cache8 MB1 MB32 MB8 MB
Cache typeL3L2L3L2
Memory clock speeds supported by processor1866.0 MHz
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3200.0 MHz
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Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAM
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DDR4 SDRAM
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Memory channels
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N/A
Dual
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Maximum internal memory supported by processor
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N/A
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24.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
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25.6 GB/s

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