The new AMD’s first DDR3 memory have just arrive with the late inclusion to the newer and the faster flagship Phenom II X4 840 black edition but having the new inboard memory instruction placed into the much mainstream variant the X4 810. It still has the normal type of features placed in the newer series of the AMD processors, with the same 45nm fabrication process with the same architecture that the updated Core 2 Duo’s are on with the new E8000 and the quad core Q9000 series and the extreme versions, but still having a much bigger L3 cache buffer memory size as oppose to the 810’s 4Mb’s l3 cache buffer size and even the4 new AMD 810 has no match to the much bigger and better Intel core 7i series with as much as 12MB L3 cache that is shared in the entire quad core chip.
But the great thing that is happing to the AMD series is the inclusion of the DDR3 memory modules with the dual channel as standard for most mobo users who like to find that AMD made a good processor that also now upgraded to the new DDR3 memory interface. Ti looks great when you look at it when ADM started using the inboard memory chip in their processors and where Intel only used before the FSB where the AMD shined with better memory latencies and bandwidth scores able to beat most core 2 duos in the memory test and the inclusion of the DDR3 is a good look for the Phenom II series as every AMD chips have except the unfortunate arrival of the Phenom with the TBL bug running about the cache memory. But most of all the Phenom II X4 810 looks good in all specs with 2.6GHz core frequency, much better than the 2.4GHz variants, 45nm (as earlier specked) and also the support of the new AM3 socket with two fewer pins connected to the core that the 939 pins allocated in the AM2+ series.
Performance in the other hand is much better noticed rarely in the new DDR3 interface, better off with the much cheaper and better alterative DDR2 memory but with some advantages being seen in the DDR3 in AMD is the lower power consumption in both of the DDR3 memory and the CPU core in the thing that the power rating in the 810 is only above the 95W rating, better to able to have a lower power leakage in the chip for better power control. And able to control in the new Gigabyte 790FX chipset with the full support of the AM# socket and the DDR3 memory showed that the core brought an annoying heat generated when over clocked but not that much to affect its stability about the reach 3.0GHz to about 3.8GHz with a high performance at hand, but even at over clocked it still didn’t dent the reputation in the core 7i series in both raw CPU and memory performance. Overall the good look ahead in the DDR3 market for buyer who like to spend their way up to a better AMD rig system.
