Tuesday, May 3rd 2011
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AMD Intros Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Quad-Core Processor
Today AMD released to market its latest quad-core processor, the Pheonom II X4 980 Black Edition. The new, faster SKU was first reported to be taking shape back in March. Based on the 45 nm "Deneb" silicon and K10.5 architecture, the X4 980 BE is yet another speed-bump, clocked at 3.70 GHz (18.5 x 200 MHz), with room for some overclocking thanks to its unlocked BClk multiplier.
The Deneb die packs four x86-64 cores with 512 KB caches each, and a shared 6 MB L3 cache. Despite its high clock speed, the processor maintains TDP of 125W. Its IMC supports dual-channel DDR3/DDR2 memory, and is backwards compatible with AM2+ socket apart from its native AM3 socket. HyperTransport 4 GT/s is its chipset interconnect. The new processor is priced at US $195.
The Deneb die packs four x86-64 cores with 512 KB caches each, and a shared 6 MB L3 cache. Despite its high clock speed, the processor maintains TDP of 125W. Its IMC supports dual-channel DDR3/DDR2 memory, and is backwards compatible with AM2+ socket apart from its native AM3 socket. HyperTransport 4 GT/s is its chipset interconnect. The new processor is priced at US $195.
26 Comments on AMD Intros Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Quad-Core Processor
But over at legitreviews, they managed 4.5GHz with little water cooling, but at 1.6V
www.legitreviews.com/article/1603/14/
Consider Price/Performance ratio.
Was goind very stable at 4.3GHz @ 1.46V again only air cooling and that on ASUS M4A89TD PRO.
more on this here (in Romanian but you'll get the numbers and charts ;) ) www.pcmhz.com/hardware-reviews/reviews-procesoare/1989-amd-x4-980-be-review?start=2)
PS - Sample was provided by AMD
Really?
:banghead:
99 out of 100 people with the choice would take an equally priced PII x6, or seriously consider a sandy bridge build.
shouldn't matter
Seriously, AMD why is it necessary to launch all these cpus with a higher multiplier and lower consumption compared to old revisisons just now? They make no sense, the 965BE was already having a smaller than average performance/price ratio. And now this. Just why? Bulldozer is coming soon SB is out and running well, that makes the Phenom II s have no sense for the buyer wanting to have an enthusiast cpu. It was said at every new launch that it will be the last, but next month a new one appeared having the name upped by 5 and the multi by one or a half.They are great all in reviews but are not rentable for the average user who gets the same from the 955 for less.
AMD, if you want to fill the news with something between now and the release date of BD, then buy ARM. That will be news worthy :)
Hopefully most games by then would actually use all four cores (or six if I can pick up an x6 chip a few years from now very cheaply), these Phenom II chips will still have years of life left in them.
I run clustering for servers so I buy pretty much only amd for myself, cost is far too high to replace the whole cluster, all old systems becomes server cluster upgrades.
usually buy the cheapest things that deliver acceptable performance.
And Bulldozer is coming out next month, no need to have a hissy fit.
This is just a grab to get some attention because AMD is so far behind the performance curve.
I just regret going too cheap when building my PC a year ago, my Radeon 4650 can barely run modern games at 720p at decent fps (trying to hold out for the Radeon 7000s series before upgrade GPU).