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AMD PHENOM X3 8600B Based on a single die design, AMD's K10 are vulnerable to manufacturing defects. To counter the low-yields, they decided to disable the 'buggy' core and sell them as triple-cores. This process allows AMD to launch a wide range of products with dual, tri and quad core processors fitting every price points in the market. Resulting from AMD's pricing strategy, these triple-cores will be competing against Intel's 45nm Wolfdale Core 2 Duo. But in this extract of the original review (in Chinese), we shall see how the tri-core will perform against it's own quad-core brother.
Looking at the identification code,
we can see that the naming schema has changed since the dual-core days.
CPU-Z reveals that the processor is based on the Toliman core,
and shares the same amount of L3 (2MB) as its quad-core brother.
Test Rig:AMD Phenom X4 9600 （Socket AM2+, 2.3GHz, 4*512K L2, 2MB L3）
AMD Phenom X3 8600 （Socket AM2+, 2.3Ghz, 3*512K L2, 2MB L3）
AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ （Socket AM2, 2.3Ghz, 2*512K L2）
AMD PHENOM X3 8600B Based on a single die design, AMD's K10 are vulnerable to manufacturing defects. To counter the low-yields, they decided to disable the 'buggy' core and sell them as triple-cores. This process allows AMD to launch a wide range of products with dual, tri and quad core processors fitting every price points in the market. Resulting from AMD's pricing strategy, these triple-cores will be competing against Intel's 45nm Wolfdale Core 2 Duo. But in this extract of the original review (in Chinese), we shall see how the tri-core will perform against it's own quad-core brother.
we can see that the naming schema has changed since the dual-core days.
and shares the same amount of L3 (2MB) as its quad-core brother.
Test Rig:AMD Phenom X4 9600 （Socket AM2+, 2.3GHz, 4*512K L2, 2MB L3）
AMD Phenom X3 8600 （Socket AM2+, 2.3Ghz, 3*512K L2, 2MB L3）
AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ （Socket AM2, 2.3Ghz, 2*512K L2）
