Release period
19-Nov-2007

Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Review

AMD considers the quad core Phenoms to be the first true quad core design, as these processors are a monolithic multi-core design (all cores on the same piece of silicon die), unlike Intel's Core 2 Quad series which are a multi-chip module (MCM) design. The processors are on the Socket AM2+ platform.
Before Phenom's original release, a flaw was discovered in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) that could cause a system lock-up in rare circumstances. Phenom processors up to and including stepping B2 and BA are affected by this bug. BIOS and software workarounds disable the TLB, and typically incur a performance penalty of at least 10%. This penalty was not accounted for in pre-release previews of Phenom, hence the performance of early Phenoms delivered to customers is expected to be less than the preview benchmarks.
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Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Performance Specification

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CPU Cores

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TDP (Power)

Lithography

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Main Link

CPU Details

2.3 GHz

4 cores

Agena

95W

65nm

Socket AM2+

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Notebook CPU

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L3 Cache

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GD RATING

CPU Features

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2048Kb

2Mb

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