Programska rješenja - maloprodaja Eight months have passed without any clock speed increases in AMD's Athlon 64 family. One reason why AMD stopped at 2.6 GHz certainly was that the 130 nm production process was reaching its limits. Another was the certainty that main competitor Intel had to operate even closer to the limits that its 90 nm process burdened the Pentium 4 family with, so there was less urgency for AMD to up speeds further. These circumstances will persist for a while, meaning that the FX-57 will basically compete only with its own predecessor.
This is the first product update that introduces new technology since the high-end FX offspring of the Athlon 64 family was introduced. While the preceding FX CPUs were based on the 130 nm Clawhammer core, FX-57 is a San Diego core product using a 90 nm process. It is expected to deliver more performance without pushing the thermal envelope any further.
