Faster Performance

Before we dive into numbers, it's worth taking a look at how you'd build a Phenom today. AMD has been heavily touting the company's "Spider" platform, which consists of motherboards built using the new AMD 790FX chipset, the AMD HD 38xx series of graphics cards, and the Phenom processor. The company claims that this would be the most balanced solution, offering good performance and lower power utilization than Intel. Today, we'll look at two pieces of the Spider platform: CPU and core logic.
Here are the speeds and feeds of the new processor.
Phenom 9600 Feature Specification

• Clock Frequency 2.3GHz (11.5x multiplier)
• L1 Cache Size 128KB per core, split into 64KB data cache and 64KB instruction cache
• L2 Cache Size 512KB per core (2MB total)
• L3 Cache Size 2MB Shared
• Memory Controller 128-bit wide integrated on-die Memory Controller Clock
• Up to 1.8GHz
• Memory Support Up to DDR2-1066
• HyperTransport 3.0 Link One 16-big, full duplex, up to 3600MHz effective
• Transistor Count 450 Million
• Process Technology 65nm SOI
• Die Size 285mm^2
• Nominal Voltage 1.1 - 1.25V Rated TDP 95W .