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Marcus Pollice (Blog) - March 25, 2006 12:32 PM

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AMD unintentionally released the 5000+ specs with their recent data sheet update. Unfortunately it contains some contradicting information regarding the chip's cache size

I don't think that AMD knew about the mess it brought when the company released a new version of its "Athlon 64 Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet" almost a week ago. Personally I think this release is quite remarkable, because it has been about one and a half years since the last official update.

Unfortunately for AMD, the document contains information about yet to be release Revision E Athlon 64 5000+ chip. This wouldn't be that bad, considering that some good news can't harm in the days of all the Conroe benchmarks floating around the web. However, it contains some contradicting information about this future chip. On one page it claims that the 5000+ will be a 2MB (2x1MB) chip, which would essentially be the same as Athlon 64 FX-60. Another page however lists it as 1MB (2x512KB) chip, in line with previous naming conventions.

Unfortunately, a number of websites report the 5000+ as being identical to FX-60 in regards of cache size, which is wrong in my opinion. The 2.6GHz AM2 Athlon 5000+ will be a dual-core chip with 512KB L2 cache per core. Whether or not the Socket 939 chip will be the same is still up for debate -- even if there is a Socket 939 chip -- but AMD will not turn their rating scheme upside down with AM2. As DailyTech earlier reported, everything will stay the same, save for the new features like DDR2 support and virtualization technology.

Meanwhile a spokesperson pointed out, that the published information was a "mistake." At the time of writing (Saturday, March 25), the data sheet was still in the same data. I wonder how AMD is going to clean up that mess, or if they will at all. Probably they will just wait for the launch of AM2 on 6-6-6 and update the data sheet then again to remove any contradicting information.

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