Today AMD is officially unveiling a new top-of-the-line socket AM2 processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. The X2 6000+ sports a full 1MB of L2 cache per core and is clocked at a healthy 3.0GHz ...

Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new ... the £740 Athlon 64 FX-57, was the undisputed king of gaming performance, but the £560 dual-core X2 4800+ was a smarter purchase.

According to an October 2008 AMD roadmap, Kuma will first come in the form of X2 7000 series dual-core 65nm processors. Athlon X2 7550 is said to be clocked at 2.5GHz with 3MB cache and a TDP of ...

Yesterday some info surfaced on the fact that AMD launched the Athlon II X2 255 processor, a new dual-core Socket AM3 chip based on the 45nm Regor. The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is clocked at 3.1GHz ...

AMD have rolled out a new desktop processor today which tops their desktop lineup of Athlon 64 X2 chips. The new "Black Edition" (not sure where they get that from) Athlon 64 X2 6400+ runs at a ...

Is £50 enough to buy adequate PC processor performance? One way to find out is to take a punt on the AMD Athlon II X2 250. On paper, it looks promising enough thanks to specifications that would ...

One area where Intel did have a marked advantage over AMD, however, was price. The Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and Athlon 64 X2 4800+ were priced similarly at over $1000 a piece, but Intel's ...

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price. In fact ...

Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title ...