Turion X2 on the 65nm

I was wondering what the benchmarks are for the TL-60 vs the T2500 and also What would the improvement be when they move from 90nm to 65nm?
Thanks for replies
-Ham

 

I haven't seen many Turion bencharks around, unfortunately. But about the second part of your question, the answer is simple... "It depends"

More specifically, it depends on what they do with it.
Fundamentally, it allows them to cram more transistors into a smaller area.
That means they need less power, because, well, the signal doesn't have to travel as far, and potentially higher clock speeds, again because the signal doesn't have to travel as far, and it means, well, smaller chips, which means cheaper chips (The size is the main cost factor in manufacturing cpu's)
Or it can mean better chips, because suddenly there's room to add a bunch of features (Which might eat up the power consumption and size advantages, but would give you more features/better performance in return)

From what I know, AMD plans are to initially make something like a pretty straightforward 65nm version of the current chips. They won't really add much new at all, but simply take advantage of the smaller size, to raise clock speeds, lower power consumption, and lower manufactoring costs. Later on (sometime in 2007, I think), they'll make a radically improved version (K8L), which should bring performance back up to compete with Conroe/Merom.