CPU/Mobo AMD Launches Turion X2 Mobile

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AMD has just announced the long awaited dual-core mobile processor—the Turion 64 X2 Mobile. The Turion 64 X2 Mobile is the first and only x86-64 compatible processor designed for mobile use. With notable features such as Multi-core Power Management, Digital Media Xpress, and Virtualization technologies the Turion 64 X2 Mobile was designed with thin and light notebooks in mind.

Multi-core power management builds upon the existing PowerNow! technology and allows dynamic clocking of both processor cores for reduced power consumption at idle while Digital Media Xpress accelerates multimedia tasks such as image processing, audio/video encoding/decoding, and 3D graphics performance. AMD’s Virtualization technology brings improved performance for virtual computing environments — similar to Intel’s Vanderpool technology.

Reference platforms built for the Turion 64 X2 Mobile have been developed by ATI and NVIDIA using an open platform with retail notebooks available this quarter. Manufacturers expected to deliver notebooks featuring the Turion 64 X2 Mobile include Acer, ASUS, BenQ, Flocity, FSC, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, MSI, NEC, ECS, Packard Bell, Sotec and TongFang.

Pricing for the Turion 64 X2 Mobile starts at $184 for the TL-50 which is a 1.6 GHz/256KB L2 cache variant and tops out with the $354 512KB L2 cache equipped TL-60 clocked at 2GHz.
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techPowerUp! News :: AMD launches Turionâ„¢ 64 X2 CPUs
 
Get a socket change, a new dual-channel DDR2 memory controller, double the processing cores, improved power management and you have a recipe for the new Turion 64 X2 processor. Read on as we take MSI's S271 Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology pre-evaluation notebook for a quick spin.

Like the original Turion 64, the newer X2 version shares some of its roots with that of the desktop Athlon 64 X2 variant. Using two processing cores, each with its own dedicated Level 2 cache memory and integrating a System Request Switch and a Crossbar Switch that interface the processing cores with the on-die memory controller and HyperTransport interconnect, the basic structure largely remains the same. The Turion 64 X2 has been designed with an integrated DDR2 memory controller. Not only that, but the once single-channel memory controller on the Turion 64 has been bolstered to a dual-channel controller, identical to that of the upcoming AM2 processors. Supports DDR2-400, DDR2-533 and DRR2-667 for up to 10.7GB/s total memory bandwidth.
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