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**Alaron** · 06-06-2007, 12:43 PM

While I agree that AMD doesn't do the best job explaining things, they are identical cores with the same HT. The key is the bandwidth provided by that bus. The Athlon 64 X2 has 8GBps available on the HT bus, and the Opteron 1xx chips have 8GBps available. Note that while it mentions the Opterons having up to 3 HT links, there is only one on the Opty 1xx.

You can compare the Architectural briefs to see that. Opteron: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...6_8805,00.html
X2: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...E13043,00.html

You can also see in this brief that AMD lists the HT frequency for the Athlon 64 X2 as 1000Mhz. Pg87: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/30430.pdf

06-06-2007, 12:43 PM	#21
Alaron Kickin' it Staff Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: USA Posts: 7,723	While I agree that AMD doesn't do the best job explaining things, they are identical cores with the same HT. The key is the bandwidth provided by that bus. The Athlon 64 X2 has 8GBps available on the HT bus, and the Opteron 1xx chips have 8GBps available. Note that while it mentions the Opterons having up to 3 HT links, there is only one on the Opty 1xx. You can compare the Architectural briefs to see that. Opteron: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...6_8805,00.html X2: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...E13043,00.html You can also see in this brief that AMD lists the HT frequency for the Athlon 64 X2 as 1000Mhz. Pg87: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/30430.pdf __________________ Fold for PCMech: Team 13761 Last edited by Alaron; 06-06-2007 at 12:49 PM.