Friday, May 6th 2011
AMD Cuts Down Processor Prices Paving Way for Bulldozer
With the obvious intention to clear out higher-end Phenom II series processors from the market, and to make room for the new upcoming FX-series "Bulldozer" CPUs, AMD introduced a chain of price-cuts affecting all price-points. This comes after the introduction of the new Phenom II X4 980 BE part, earlier this week. The X4 980 BE pushes down prices of nearly all Phenom II X4 and X2 parts, while pulling down six-core models with it.
The six-core X6 1090T Black Edition with unlocked multiplier is priced on par with it, while the 1075T, 1065T, and 1055T are below it. The Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition continues to be the fastest AMD has to offer, and it's just a little over $200, at $205, making it a heck of a deal against Intel Core i5-2500K. All the prices are tabled below.
The six-core X6 1090T Black Edition with unlocked multiplier is priced on par with it, while the 1075T, 1065T, and 1055T are below it. The Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition continues to be the fastest AMD has to offer, and it's just a little over $200, at $205, making it a heck of a deal against Intel Core i5-2500K. All the prices are tabled below.
37 Comments on AMD Cuts Down Processor Prices Paving Way for Bulldozer
It is almost the same price as the 1090T since launch.
IMO if Bulldozer turns out to be another Phenom II with price being their only advantage, I will abandon AMD solutions for good(not gpu though, best!)
And here is a full list of the current Athlon II pricing.
nothing can really beat it's price point.
But gaming machine is something diffrent...
bulldozer apus are a ways off still, notice how there are no immediate plans for 9xxg/9xxgx chipsets?
there will be no northbridge required for krisna, just like sandy the pci-e controller will most likely be ONDIE.
You can put up a seperate pci-e controller just like NF200 gets used.
Most likely 24 pci-e lanes will be interigated in krisna, or 16 so not enough for very high end, but most users it will be sufficient.
How many lanes it'll have, I have no clue, but its only idiotic to not have a pci-e controller on die when you have gpu, cpu, and imc on die.
so yeah, different from Zambezi (FX-series), Llano (E-series) is APU itself. and Khrisna will be Zacate's successor with 28nm process..
IMO the 1100t still isn't a competitor for the 2500k. Doesn't anyone get what performance-per-core means? :shadedshu
cpubenchmark only do one test, and it's based only from the software they were created. if you want to see how good they really works, test it on real and syntethic benchmarks like dhry-whetstone, video encoding-transcoding, 3dmark, and real-time games.
so far i see, 2500k really do better than 1100T. but only significant on memory test and games that cpu demanded like far cry 2 and GTA IV. the rest only 10-15% faster. so based on new prices, for the people who's budget tighted, 1100T it's still good bargains..
i'm not defending AMD. even i had a plan to build my next rig with 2500K. but again, its all back to buyer, which platform they will find more suitable.
btw, 10-15% more faster is not that significant, take a look at this :
www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/1
I run shit tons of stuff at the same time.
Whilst clock for clock I get beaten having two extra cores means more leway when it comes to abusing my system :toast:
But my point is, AM3+ will not support APU... and will probably be swapped out in 2013 or something like that.
I'd be suprised if bulldozer ever will be apu on am3+.
Thats pretty damn good IMO :pimp:
$143 -- Phenom II X4 910e, 2.6GHz
Who in their right mind would spend 43% more money for a 4% increase in performance? :wtf: