Wednesday, August 27th 2008
AMD Brings in New Desktop CPUs, Cuts Prices
AMD has added weight to its CPU lineup by bringing in new CPUs and cutting prices for some older ones. New CPUs aside, the price cuts by AMD are rather dramatic to say the least. To begin with, it's known that the Phenom X4 9950 has a rated TDP of 140W, and that only a chosen few motherboards support it, perhaps leading to cold market response. AMD has revised the processor with a lower rated TDP of 125W. This isn't new, AMD did the same with the 125W B3 stepping model X4 9750 months ago, releasing a revised 95W B3 part. What's more, the Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition could sport a surprising price of US $186. Perhaps it's AMD paving the way for its 45nm parts. At its new TDP and price the X4 9950 is a much better buy.
The Phenom X3 8750 would sell for $139, making it very competitive with Intel's offerings at that price-band. Additionally, AMD added new dual-core processors based on the Brisbane core, the Athlon X2 6500 Black Edition priced at $105 and an Athlon X2 5050e 45W low-power part at $90.
Changes to the prices of existing processors are as followed.
For the Phenom X4 series:
Source:
Hexus.net
The Phenom X3 8750 would sell for $139, making it very competitive with Intel's offerings at that price-band. Additionally, AMD added new dual-core processors based on the Brisbane core, the Athlon X2 6500 Black Edition priced at $105 and an Athlon X2 5050e 45W low-power part at $90.
Changes to the prices of existing processors are as followed.
For the Phenom X4 series:
- The 140W Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition gets price parity with its cooler twin, cut from $235 to $186
- The Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition slips further down from $194 to $180
- The Phenom X4 9750 gets much needed respite from an illogical price of $215 to $170
- The Phenom X4 9650 moves from being priced at $195 to $156
- Phenom X3 8750 from $175 to a new low $134
- Phenom X3 8650 from $145 to $123
- Athlon X2 6000+ from $112 to $95
- Athlon X2 5600+ from $102 to $88
- Athlon X2 5400+ from $87 to $78
- Athlon X2 5200+ from $76 to $68
73 Comments on AMD Brings in New Desktop CPUs, Cuts Prices
There's said to be two chips in the pipeline, the FX-80 at 4Ghz and the FX-82 at 4.4GHz.
The FX-80 at stock out performs a 5.0GHz Kentsfield.
reviewage.co.uk/content/view/33/1/
the 9950 has come down enough when i get another decent job i can afford to get it
And if they can make tri-core they can make dual core.
The prices on the Quads are just awesome though.
PP Mquire, the Tri-core (Toliman X3) processors are X4 processors with one core disabled not a built from scratch Tri-core model.
K
Btw, I'm surprised they squeezed out the X2 6500 as well :twitch: Good job AMD!
AMD has already stated shipping to Taiwan (recently) motherboard makers, compared to Intel 3 weeks ago. so they will have motherboards out in time for Xmas/back to school period, otherwise they miss out on the biggest money maker of the year. funny how amd left it to the last moment, maybe to see if Intel has anything else they have not told everyone about
According to this article from TweakTown, because of a divider based setup on the CPU speed, the built-in memory controller in Athlon X2 4850e processors can't handle DDR2 800 memories at full speed. They can work at a speed of max. 712 MHz. What can be the max speed we can expect from the 5050e mem controller? I calculated as 740 MHz.
TBH, I'm not 100% sure how the mem dividers work on Phenom, but I'm willing to bet it's the same, except that they have 1066MHz support built in as well.
I read something in about this in a magzine but I didn't quite understand it.