Friday, January 30th 2009
AMD To Crank Up Phenom II Clock-Speeds Upto 3.50 GHz, Planning New Models
Beating its chest on the "massive headroom" (read: clock speed increment potential) its newest line of processors, the Phenom II have, it was about time the company utilized the said headroom to carve out new SKUs. With the AM2+ exclusive Phenom II X4 940 already showing impressive overclocking potential, while shipping with a clock speed of 3.00 GHz, the company is planning to increase stock clock speeds in increments of 100 MHz (0.5x multiplier) with a string of SKUs post Phenom II X4 950. This according to the insider sources a German website called AMD News caught up with.
All the upcoming processors will be built on the AM3 package, making them compatible with DDR3 and DDR2 memory standards. With the Phenom II X4 950 being clocked at 3.10 GHz, succeeding SKUs take 100 MHz steps, starting from a Phenom II X4 960 at 3.20 GHz to a Phenom II X4 990 at 3.50 GHz. Despite the high clock speeds, the chips will continue to maintain rated TDPs of 125W. At some point within the succession, AMD will crank up the HyperTransport interconnect speed from 1,800 MHz to 2,000 MHz. The launch-schedule for these processors will be spread throughout 2009.
The models in the new series consist of:
Source:
News-AMD.de
All the upcoming processors will be built on the AM3 package, making them compatible with DDR3 and DDR2 memory standards. With the Phenom II X4 950 being clocked at 3.10 GHz, succeeding SKUs take 100 MHz steps, starting from a Phenom II X4 960 at 3.20 GHz to a Phenom II X4 990 at 3.50 GHz. Despite the high clock speeds, the chips will continue to maintain rated TDPs of 125W. At some point within the succession, AMD will crank up the HyperTransport interconnect speed from 1,800 MHz to 2,000 MHz. The launch-schedule for these processors will be spread throughout 2009.
The models in the new series consist of:
- Phenom II X4 950 (3.10 GHz, 15.5 x 200)
- Phenom II X4 960 (3.20 GHz, 16 x 200)
- Phenom II X4 970 (3.30 GHz, 16.5 x 200)
- Phenom II X4 980 (3.40 GHz, 17 x 200)
- Phenom II X4 990 (3.50 GHz, 17.5 x 200)
112 Comments on AMD To Crank Up Phenom II Clock-Speeds Upto 3.50 GHz, Planning New Models
Ive been reading quite a few reviews reguarding the X4 940BE & there still people comparing it to the C2D Q6600 & saying the Q6600 beats it hands down for price & overclockability etc etc....
I wonder if they will tell us this time there secret ingredient?
I wouldn't hold my breath mate..... and even if they do come out with a Fx line.... and they been talking about it for month's i highly doubt it'll be over clock able by much :shadedshu
# Frequence: 3.20 GHz
# FSB: 800 MHz
# Cache: 2 MB
# Process: 90 nm
# Socket: LGA775
# Package: OEM
# This processor includes Hyper-Threading Technology.
# This processor supports Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T).
Seems like Intel beat them to the Clock speed way back when now AMD is doing it but It is all wonderful and exciting !
Oh for the good old days ... Suck it it people this is going to be the theme for the next 2-3 years for AMD CLOCK UP UP UP FASTER WE NEED TO CATCH UP !!!! :rockout: :twitch:
Things have changed, now AMD is in the position Intel was in the Pentium VS Athlon gen since the X2's came out, they need something more than this to truly compete.
they're lucky ATI is now part of AMD,
What is wrong with me telling it like it really is ? I am dogging AMD for this because it is JUST what Intel did with there LAME ASS P4 to keep up with AMD's XP and Athlon now that the shoe is on the other foot I well thought that it would be fine to jeer and jab and knock AMD for this after all fare is fare . OH and AMD is not going down just trying to keep up and clocking the hell out of the CPU seemed to work well for Intel so I guess AMD is going to give it a shot now .
Did this overclock offest anything AMD offered during it's time. IE: offset the reduced number of instructions per cycle? You betcha at 4.2GHz I was just as fast (and usually faster during encoding/watching HD quality moves) then AMD's counterpart during it's time.
-games
-decoding
-encoding
-watching HD content
-unziping
-etc
at 4.2GHz the Intel 660 was formidable for it's time. This I remember specifically because me and my friends did comparisons back in the day :)