This native CPU/GPU combo approach is planned in either dual-core or quad-core specifications as a product named Llano that aims at the mainstream notebook market. For the emerging market, AMD plans Ontario, a dual core CPU with a DirectX 11 APU. An APU is not a Simpson character, it’s rather a term that stands for Accelerated Processing Unit.

In addition to performance, AthlonII X4 620 has obvious price advantages.There is around 20% gap between AthlonII X4 620 and Core 2 Q8200. In a word, there is no doubt that AthlonII X4 620 is attractive to most users.It indeed push quad-core processors further popularity. Thats to say, it can be said to be the real affordable processor.In view of nex-gen operating system approaching,quad-core processors also have better performance in this situation.

On paper, the Phenom II X4 965 is essentially a pumped up 955. The CPU is clocked at 3.4GHz; a mere 200MHz over the previous top end 955 and retains the unlocked multipliers of its older brother. A plus has to be the clock speed as there hasn’t yet been a quad core CPU clocked at 3.4GHz out of the box. However, AMD has taken some risks in getting the CPU to that speed, releasing it with a TDP rating of 140W. We haven’t seen a TDP rating go that high on a CPU since Intel’s Prescott based Pentium 4. This is likely to make cooler manufacturers wince a little, and make it harder to get a decent overclock out of the CPU. It also may start to mark the end for this particular core in terms of future headroom.

The CPU in question is a very early engineering sample of the new Magny-Cours CPU. This will indeed features a handy 12 CPU cores on the die but will run at a much more respectable speed than the 800MHz we saw in the other shot.

Calisto has 2x512KB L2 cache per core and additional 6MB of L3 cache that makes it quite fast CPU. The name is Phenom II X2 555 and this CPU will work at 3.2GHz.