Sunday, January 18th 2009
Phenom II X4 950 On The Cards
In all past roadmaps, AMD told us that its DDR3-supportive CPU lineup would begin with the Phenom II X4 945. Evidently that is not the case. From a recent DigiTimes report, there was hint given that all's not well with AMD's DDR3 plans, with the company toiling hard to get DDR3 memory run smooth and stable on AM3 socket CPUs, with integrated DDR3 memory controllers. The same report also highlighted the larger issue of both AMD and Intel being reluctant in orchestrating an industry-wide transition to the newer DDR3 memory standard across all market-segments. Amidst all this, AMD seems to have a small change of plans with its entire Phenom II lineup, with several processors earlier thought to be based on AM2+, emerging now as DDR3-supportive AM3. Also, it is known that AMD's first DDR3-supportive flagship quad-core chip will be the Phenom II X4 925, which arrives before the 945 and the newer SKU that has come to light.
Enter Phenom II X4 950, AMD's next flagship desktop CPU that succeeds the Phenom II X4 940. This one surfaced on the most recent roadmap slides. Slated for Q2 2009, this processor tentatively releases when AMD issues last-order notices to channel vendors for the Phenom II X4 920 and 940, in Q2. The processor releases alongside, or within the time-frame of the Phenom II X4 945's release. From whatever the slide tells, the 950 is merely a 100 MHz clock speed increment over the 945, with a 0.5x multiplier increase, sending its clock speed to 3.10 GHz. It is not known if the 950 comes in a Black Edition SKU with unlocked bus multipliers. Speculation is already rife that there should be a Phenom II X4 930/935, to give the 920/925 a similar 100 MHz clock speed increment, sitting on to 2.90 GHz point. All other specifications seem standard with the 950. The slide also sheds light on the company's Phenom II X4 800 series, that feature 6 MB of total cache, against the 8 MB (2 MB L2 + 6 MB L3) the 900 series chips come with. There are models running at stock speeds of 2.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz in place.
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PCOnline
Enter Phenom II X4 950, AMD's next flagship desktop CPU that succeeds the Phenom II X4 940. This one surfaced on the most recent roadmap slides. Slated for Q2 2009, this processor tentatively releases when AMD issues last-order notices to channel vendors for the Phenom II X4 920 and 940, in Q2. The processor releases alongside, or within the time-frame of the Phenom II X4 945's release. From whatever the slide tells, the 950 is merely a 100 MHz clock speed increment over the 945, with a 0.5x multiplier increase, sending its clock speed to 3.10 GHz. It is not known if the 950 comes in a Black Edition SKU with unlocked bus multipliers. Speculation is already rife that there should be a Phenom II X4 930/935, to give the 920/925 a similar 100 MHz clock speed increment, sitting on to 2.90 GHz point. All other specifications seem standard with the 950. The slide also sheds light on the company's Phenom II X4 800 series, that feature 6 MB of total cache, against the 8 MB (2 MB L2 + 6 MB L3) the 900 series chips come with. There are models running at stock speeds of 2.5 GHz, 2.6 GHz in place.
42 Comments on Phenom II X4 950 On The Cards
AM3 chips support both DDR3 and DDR2, AM2+ Denebs (such as 940) won't support DDR3, won't run on AM3 motherboards.
if everyones excited about the 950/955 then why not get super excited about the Phenom2 FX line that will follow :D thats gonna be some fast stuff and even better overclockers :D
Kind of unfortunate to see the last order of the brand new processor I just bought in a few months.
And about the 940 being axed, that was known right off the bat. It's a place holder for people who wanted the PII's right now. Since the 945's will be backwards compatible with AM2+ boards no reason to continue making the 940's. But there might be some very attractive price cuts when people are looking to clear inventories, we'll see.
I want one of the 800 series chips.
hope we can grap cheaper DDR3 on Q3.
ie GDDR5 which is in fact QDR memory