The California-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the upcoming availability of its new desktop processors. The new processors come under AMD’s leading line of Athlon II chips. The newly announced chips are the company’s first Athlon triple-core processors. The newly announced array of Athlon II CPUs has quad-core models. The chips have triple-core and dual-core in eight total new chips. Out of that six chips are the parts of the energy-efficient line-up. The low-cost model among the processors of AMD is the dual-core Athlon II X2 235e. This processor is specially designed to offer high speed of 2.7GHz. It can also give a TDP of 45W to the users.
Most of the AMD’s new Athlon II processors are designed with a TDP of 45W.AMD 235e model will be available for a price of US$69.
All the other new energy-efficient models of Athlon II X2 namely 240e, 400e, 405e, 600e and 605e have a TDP of 45W. They all have clock speeds of 2.8GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz, 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz, respectively.
Price of these processors are in the order US$77, US$99, US$102, US$133 and US$143.Apart from the above models, AMD also declared the triple-core processors namely Athlon II X3 435 and Athlon II X3 425.The new processors are designed with a 95W TDP.
They core speeds of 2.7GHz and 2.9GHz respectively. Price of the new processors are US$76 and US$86 respectively. Compared to Intel Core 2 Duo processors the new triple core processors of AMD will attract more customers due to their performance and price ratio.
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