AMD's Puma processor line-up

Recently we reported about AMD's notebook Puma platform. Now AMD has introduced Puma's processor line-up. The company also released a roadmap, showing the future Griffin-processors.

The current Turion 64 revision G processors will be replaced by the Griffin, also known as the Turion 64 Ultra. The 64 Ultra will have the prefix ZM in it's name. Initially there will be three types of dual-cores with the clockspeeds varying from 2.1 to 2.4 GHz, all having 1 MB L2 cache per core. 

The RM-70 will be the only Turion 64 that will remain in production. The RM-70 is also a dual-core, but runs at 2.0 GHz with 512 KB L2 cache per core. The cheapest dual-core will be the QL-60, pretty much the same processor as the RM-70, but with it's 1.9 GHz, just a bit slower. The single core Sempron is slowly meeting it's end and with the SI-40, only one single core processor remains. The SI-40 runs at 2.0 Ghz and has 512 KB L2 cache. 

 

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Turion 64 Ultra's roadmap shows a slow increment of clockspeeds, having the fastest model (2.7 GHz) planned for the third quarter of 2009. According to the roadmap, the four available processortypes of the Puma-platform will raise 300 or 400 MHz in clockspeed. The amount of L2 cache and the power consumption remain the same for now.