difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Hiisi wrote:

> 2010/2/4 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
> >
> >  undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a
> > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part):
> >
> > model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
> > stepping        : 2
> > cpu MHz         : 800.000
> > ...
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
> > cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
> > rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm
> > cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
> >
> >  the above *seems* to suggest an oddly slow processor (800 MHz), but
> > the "svm" flag tells me it has AMD H/W virt support, correct?
> >
> >  however, if i pop over to the corresponding(?) AMD page:
> >
> > http://products.amd.com/en-na/NotebookCPUDetail.aspx?id=18&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10=
> >
> > that page suggests that that processor is 2 GHz, but that there is
> > *no* H/W virt support.
> >
> >  i'm confused.  am i just misreading something?
>
> And what lshw says?

  don't have that installed right now, and i have to dash.  but
whatever lshw tells me, it's still disconcerting that the info from
/proc/cpuinfo seems to disagree so drastically from the processor spec
page.

  more later when i get a chance to test.

rday
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