Roadmap: AMD's consumer Quad
core
While everyone is still
busy talking about Barcelona, a server CPU I believe that we should take more
attention to a desktop part called Budapest. Most of us don't buy servers every
day but we tend to change our desktop hardware quite a lot.
Budapest, a desktop
version of AMD's native Quad core will work on an AM2+ socket. It won't be
exclusive to socket 1207 only, as many originally believed. The CPU will end up
with 2MB dedicated L2 cache and additional 2MB shared L3 cache.
The new socket supports Hyper transport 3 and interconnection speeds of more
than 4000 MHz or twice as fast as the current Hypertransport 1. The only
difference between AM2+ version of Budapest and the socket 1207 is that the
first one doesn't supports dual socket machine aka Quad FX.
The rest should be
the same but AMD might tweak the speeds to differentiate the products.
