AMD CHIPSET NAMES CONFUSING?

I've been out of the pc world for quite sometime now and I just got back into the scene just a few weeks ago. I however have found myself confused on a few things. I guess for starters AMD's new chipsets have me scratching my head in attempts to figure out why the chips are named after certain cities. I see some named San Diego, Clawhammer, Venice, Winsor, Orleans, Paris, Newcastle etc. I'm just curious as to what they mean?

i just look at the amount of L2 cache the CPU has

like u said

Venice = 512k

San Diego = 1mb


AMD 64 X2

Toledo = 2x1mb

Manchester = 2x512

sh1t

512k

Those names don't refer to the chipsets; they refer to the CPUs themselves (In case that point hasn't been made). The names are internal AMD codenames that refer to diiferent cores and variations. The variations between these cores include name, onboard cache, process size, # of cores, features and instruction sets, etc.

Note: If two cores appear to be the same, they may differ by TDP (How much heat they dissipate).

List of AMD Sempron/Sempron 64 cores:
Paris - Socket 754, 256Kb L2, 130nm.
Palermo - Socket 754, 256Kb L2, 90nm.
Manilla - Socket AM2, 256Kb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Athlon 64 cores:
Clawhammer - Socket 754/939, 1Mb L2, 130nm.
Newcastle - Socket 754/939, 512Kb L2, 130nm.
Winchester - Socket 939, 512Kb L2, 90nm.
Venice - Socket 754/939, 512Kb L2, 90nm.
San Diego - Socket 939, 1Mb L2, 90nm.
Orleans - Socket AM2, 512Kb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Mobile Sempron cores:
Dublin - Socket 754, 128/256Kb L2, 130nm.
Georgetown - Socket 754, 128/256Kb L2, 90nm.
Sonora - Socket 754, 128/256Kb L2, 90nm.
Albany - Socket 754, 128/256Kb L2, 90nm.
Roma - Socket 754, 128/256Kb L2, 90nm.
Keene - Socket S1, 256/512Kb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Mobile Athlon 64 cores:
Clawhammer - Socket 754, 512/1024Kb L2, 130nm.
Odessa - Socket 754, 512Kb L2, 130nm.
Oakville - Socket 754, 512Kb L2, 90nm.
Newark - Socket 754, 1Mb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Turion 64 cores:
Lancaster - Socket 754, 512/1024Kb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Turion 64 X2 cores:
Taylor - Socket S1, 256Kb L2, 90nm.
Trinidad - Socket S1, 512Kb L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Athlon 64 X2 cores:
Manchester - Socket 939, 512Kb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
Toledo - Socket 939, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
Windsor - Athlon 64 X2/FX, Socket AM2, 2x512KB L2, 90nm.
List of AMD Athlon 64 FX cores:
Sledgehammer - Socket 940, 1Mb L2, 130nm.
Clawhammer - Socket 939, 1Mb L2, 130nm.
San Diego - Socket 939, 1Mb L2, 90nm.
Toledo - Socket 939, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
Windsor - Socket AM2, 512/1024Kb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
List of AMD Opteron cores:
Sledgehammer - Socket 940, 1Mb L2, 130nm.
Venus - Socket 939/940, 1Mb L2, 90nm, (1-Way).
Troy - Socket 940, 1Mb L2, 90nm, (2-Way).
Athens - Socket 940, 1Mb L2, 90nm (8-Way).
Denmark - Socket 939/940, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm, (1-Way).
Italy - Socket 940, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm, (2-Way).
Egypt - Socket 940, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm, (8-Way).
Santa Ana - Socket AM2, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
Santa Rosa - Socket F, 1Mb L2 (Per Core), 90nm.
List of Future AMD cores (Subject to Change):
Sparta - Sempron, Socket AM2, 256Kb L2, 65nm.
Brisbane - Athlon 64 X2, Socket AM2, 512Kb L2, 65nm.
Sherman - Mobile Athlon 64, Socket S1, 512Kb L2 (Per Core), 65nm.
Tyler - Turion 64 X2, Socket S1, 512Kb L2 (Per Core), 65nm.
Bulldozer - ??? (Known Successor to Turion 64 X2)
Deerhound - Opteron, Socket F, 65nm.
Greyhound - Quad-Core, 512Kb L2, 2Mb L3, 65nm.
Barcelona - Quad-core, 65nm.
Budapest - Quad-core, 65nm.
Shanghai - Opteron, Quad-Core, 65nm.
Zamora - Opteron, Quad-Core, 2Mb L3, 65nm.
Cadiz- - Opteron, Quad-Core, 65nm.

nope

do you have the latest version of cpuz?

google cpuid

what is the stepping of your chip on the Integrated Heatsink of the cpu? if it ends in BP its a venice no doubt.

Maybe, this is a hunch, when they discontinued the 1mb cache product line, they chopped off half the cache a sandiego and renamed it. So cpuz still sees sandiego

Awesome list, but there were never 200 and 800 series (Italy/Egypt) socket 939 cores were there?
I don't know how I missed that. But yes, I believe 2-Way and 8-Way cores are only available for 940.