AMD’s Deneb Reaches 3.2 GHz
AMD’s current quad-cores aren’t much to brag about, unless we think of their price. But AMD knows it has to remain competitive on the performance side as well, and so it makes haste for the 45nm CPUs. Not that we’d actually see any 45nm CPU from AMD until Q4 this year.
At least we now officially know that Deneb, the desktop quad-core variant of the Shanghai 45nm CPU, can easily hit 3.2 GHz and go beyond that. Although Deneb can’t be rushed to match Shanghai’s launch, AMD fans can rest assured that the 45nm desktop CPU is worth waiting for a bit more.
Deneb will be the direct competitor for Intel’s Nehalem CPU, which is supposed to be clocked at 3.0 GHz, so the AMD processor with its 3.2 GHz still has a fighting chance as long as performance is the name of the game. It could be that Nehalem might win the race again, hopefully only by a small margin, while AMD’s solution will be more price-competitive.
AMD announced that Deneb samples will be out as soon as Q3, but the CPU will be ready for a commercial launch sometime in Q4 . No problem, we’ll wait on it patiently as we overclock our R700-based video cards like crazy.
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