Thursday, July 23rd 2009
AMD Silently Intros 95W Phenom II X4 945
AMD quietly decked up shelves with a new processor, this time, a low TDP variant of the Phenom II X4 945 quad-core processor. Carrying the model identifier "HDX945WFK4DGI", the Phenom II X4 945 95W comes with a significantly lower TDP rating compared to its 125W predecessor. It first surfaced on a CPU-support list by MSI, that leaked details of some unreleased processors. Based on the 45 nm Deneb core, in the AM3 package, the Phenom II X4 945 has an operating frequency of 3.00 GHz, 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport 3.0 system interface, 512 KB L2 cache per core, and a 6 MB shared L3 cache. It supports DDR2 and DDR3 memory standards. It has a bus multiplier of 15.0x which is upwards-locked since this is not a Black Edition SKU. It will have the same suggested retail price as its 125W version, at US $225.
46 Comments on AMD Silently Intros 95W Phenom II X4 945
Why don't Ferraris cost the same as Fords?
Ferrari seriously needs to make a car that costs the same as a Ford.
He wants the best of all worlds: Cheap, Low Power, and Fast.
The normal Phenoms are Cheap and Fast, and the Es are Low Power. Personally, I'd at least like to see Low Power and Fast, or Low Power and Cheap. I don't see why the low power chips are suddenly being priced so high, they should at least be close to the price point of similar performance non-low power chips, a little bit more expensive is understandable, but the markup on them now is just insane. Intel and AMD are both guilty of this...
You car example is flawed. A Ferrari is a completely different car from a ford, for the most part at least...
A Ferrari is fast and expensive, a Ford cheap(relatively). Of course, this ignores the Super Snake, which at ~$75,000 is very close to being as fast as a Ferrari for a fraction of the price.
And ignoring all that, you are comparing to different companies in two completely different markets. Here we are comparing a single company, producing products for the same market.
A better anology would be Toyota trying to sell the Camery Hybrid for $10,000 more than the XLE. As it is now, the Hybrid is slighly more expensive, but not outragously so, only about $250.
And the Super Snake's not a Ford -- it's a Shelby. :D You will NOT take my side. I don't even care if you agree with me. :laugh: