AMD is placing its hopes of regaining market share lost to Intel on its new line of processors set for launch next year. AMD is planning to launch a lot of processors, 14 of them to be exact according to the latest roadmap uncovered.
HKEPC says that the different processors to be launched will use the Phenom II brand and some will bring back the Athlon name. The new parts will all be 45nm desktop processors and will start coming to market in January 2009, a few of them likely to be announced for CES 2009 in early January. New processor introductions are reported to last until June when all of the new parts will be official.
When AMD first announced its new processors, the naming convention was unanimously disliked with its Phenom branding along with a five-digit model number. The parts will now launch under the brand names previously mentioned and sport a three-digit product identifier.
45nm quad-core processors for the AM2+ and AM3+ sockets will be in the Phenom II X4 900 family and Phenom X4 905 family. A 4MB L3 cache version of the Deneb CPU will also be added in the Phenom II X4 800 family. The Phenom II X4 900 and 905 CPUs will have 2MB of L3 cache.
The launch date for the 45nm AM2+ quad-core Deneb is now reported to be January 8; the CPU was originally expected in mid-December. When February 2009 rolls around, AMD will unveil six socket AM3 45nm processors including the Phenom II X4 925 with 6MB of L3 cache and a Phenom II X4 910 with the same cache. A pair of 4MB L3 cache processors, the Phenom II X4 810 and Phenom II X3 710 will debut the same month. Also tipping up in February will be a pair of 6MB L3 cache CPUs including the Phenom X3 720 and the Phenom II X3 710.
CPUs to be released under the Athlon brand will be 45nm, but will lack the L3 cache of the higher end parts. The Athlon X2 200 family will feature two parts and will offer 2MB of L2 cache with a 65W TDP and is slated for release in June. DailyTech reported on an AMD roadmap in November that mentioned a few of these processor families by code name.
The breakdown of processors looks like this:
January 2009:
- Phenom II X4 940 at 3GHz, 8MB total cache using the AM2+ socket
- Phenom II X4 920 at 2.8GHz with 8MB of total cache on the AM2+ socket
February 2009:
- Phenom II X4 910 2.6GHz with 8MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Phenom II X4 810 Phenom II X4 810 2.6GHz with 6MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Phenom II X4 805 Phenom II X4 805 2.5GHz with 6MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Phenom II X3 720 Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz with 7.5MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Phenom II X3 710 Phenom II X3 710 2.6GHz with 7.5MB total cache on the AM3 socket
April 2009:
- Phenom II X4 945 3.0GHz with 8MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Athlon X4 615 2.7GHz with 2MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Athlon X4 605 2.5GHz with 2MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Athlon X3 420 Athlon X3 420 2.8GHz with 1.5MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Athlon X3 410 Athlon X3 410 2.6GHz with 1.5MB total cache on the AM3 socket
June 2009:
- Athlon X2 240 2.8GHz with 2MB total cache on the AM3 socket
- Athlon X2 235 Athlon X2 235 2.7GHz with 2MB total cache on the AM3 socket
