[news] AMD Athlon 64 Revision E adds SSE3 Support

[Handruin]

As we discovered most recently, AMD's 90nm CPUs are of a brand new revision that featured a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. Internally AMD refers to this CPU revision as Revision D. However we noticed something very interesting when looking at the latest AMD roadmaps while in Taiwan: the 90nm chips listed as San Diego and Venice (Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 respectively) claimed SSE3 support as a feature, but the current 90nm chips do not have SSE3 support.

We went around to quite a few manufacturers asking what the difference was between the 90nm chips shipping today and the 90nm chips that supposedly feature SSE3 support, and unfortunately we were left with very little information - until we learned to ask for the right thing.

Internally, AMD's San Diego and Venice CPUs are referred to as nothing more than Athlon 64 Revision E chips. Revision E includes even more bug fixes and performance improvements over those we found in Revision D, including support for the 13 new instructions that were added with Prescott, more commonly known as SSE3.

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[ddrueding]

Alright....so how can you ell you are getting a rev. E part?

 

[CityK]

I'm sure when they start shipping ("in early 2005") that such information will become available then.

 

[sechs]

I figure that they'll be marked. Just get your retailer to let you look at it first....

 

[kentang]

I heard it'll be DAA4BP

for 3500: ADA3500DAA4BP
CBBLE 0504EPAW

 

[Pradeep]

If buying from Newegg, just check it has SSE3 listed.

 

[Handruin]

I don't see any listed on newegg yet...are you just saying that when they are available?

Side-topic...newegg has an A64 3500+ 939 ($369) that costs more than a 3700+...what the hell is with that? They are both retail units.

 

[Pradeep]

3700 is socket 754

 

[Pradeep]

If you search for the Troy core in Newegg you will see a couple of Opterons/FXs with the new core, it's just a matter of time before they are available in the Athlon64 range.

 

[CityK]

xbits had some info last week

 

[kentang]

Got this from a friend

:mrgrn:

:mrgrn:

 

[Handruin]

Is that your own chip? Also, is the SSE3 support on the winchester core, or is it a new one?

 

[kentang]

Is that your own chip? Also, is the SSE3 support on the winchester core, or is it a new one?

Can't disclose that. SSE3 only supported in Venice core aka Rev. E CPU

Review of 3500+ Newcastle vs Winnie
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article.php/3261_3453401__1

Picture of Newcastle

Will try to find CPU-Z on Winnie

 

[kentang]

BELOW IS OVERCLOCKED Winchester 3500+. The Voltage, Core Speed, Multiplier and HTT are overclocked result and can't be use as reference

 

[mubs]

What board is the overclocked Winchester running on?

 

[Buck]

Well, my disti seems to have plenty of the ADA3200BIBOX in stock.