CPU Comparison

A

AMD

AMD

AMD Athlon 900

CORE STATE Orion

CORE SPECS 1 Cores / 1 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 900 Base

CACHE —

MAX TDP 60W

ARCHITECTURE K10

nm

PROCESS 180 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2000

VS

i

Intel

INTEL

Core i7-960

CORE STATE Bloomfield

CORE SPECS 4 Cores / 8 Threads

CLOCK SPEED 3.2 Base / 3.47 GHz Turbo

CACHE 8 MB (shared)

MAX TDP 130W

ARCHITECTURE Nehalem

nm

PROCESS 45 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2009

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

cinebench_cinebench_r15_multicore

N/A

288

cinebench_cinebench_r20_multicore

N/A

1,203

cinebench_cinebench_r20_singlecore

N/A

169

cinebench_cinebench_r23_multicore

N/A

2,865

cinebench_cinebench_r23_singlecore

N/A

404

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

Athlon 900

i7-960

Core Specs

Cores

1

4 +300.0%

Threads

1

8 +700.0%

Base Clock (GHz)

900

3.2 -99.6%

Boost Clock (GHz)

—

3.47

Frequency (GHz)

900

3.2 -99.6%

Turbo Clock (GHz)

—

3.47

Multiplier

9

24 +166.7%

SMP CPUs

1

1 0.0%

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB

64 KB (per core)

L2 Cache

512 KB

256 KB (per core)

L3 Cache

—

8 MB (shared)

Power

TDP (W)

60

130 +116.7%

Architecture

Architecture

K10

Nehalem

Codename

Orion

Bloomfield

Generation

Athlon Model 2 (Orion)

Core i7 (Bloomfield)

Process Size

180 nm

45 nm

Transistors

22 million

731 million

Die Size

102 mm²

263 mm²

Foundry

—

Intel

Memory

Memory Support

unknown Depends on motherboard

DDR3

Memory Bus

Single-channel

Triple-channel

ECC Memory

No

No

Platform

Socket

AMD Slot A

Intel Socket 1366

Chipsets

AMD 750, VIA KX133

—

PCIe

—

Gen 2

Other

Market

Desktop

Desktop

Production Status

End-of-life

End-of-life

Launch Price

$899

—

Part Number

AMD-K7900MNR53BA

SLBEU

Package

SECC

FC-LGA8

Bundled Cooler

Yes

—

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