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
A64 FX-51 2.8Ghz
Now that customers are happy get to work on improving it even more.
Common mate!!!! :nutkick:
I for one think that AMD is playing the same game Intel did and now it is all ok and great and wonderful . Not like it was when Intel did it . :shadedshu:wtf:
The prices would still have to drop further to sub £200 even for the 3.5GHz version.
As for this being compared to Intel's Netburst frequency ramping, don't be daft, this chip isn't setting any wattage records and far closer clock for clock than any P4 chip was to the Athlon XP, I used to have an Althon XP-M 2600+ @2.6GHz that destroyed any P4 chip.
AMD is making a hell of a chip for a cheap price, and that stays cool under load.
Comparing two different reviews you can draw your own conclusions. All I know is for cheap my system runs GTA4 like butter now.
www.tweaktown.com/articles/1672/2/stock_to_clocked_core_i7_920_at_3_8ghz/index.html
www.guru3d.com/article/amd-phenom-ii-x4-920-and-940-review-test/16
Even in the 3DVantage scores.
And considering the Phenom II set a (doesn't really matter for everyday use) 3D05 record by running 6.3Ghz and running at 6.5+ Ghz, and that was with air cooled cards. Imagine what a set of Ln cooled cards would do to the vantage score with the same setup.....:p
But I think the 3.2GHz chip will be the best buy, and maybe the best overclocker.
Relax guys nobody even knows if this is true at all, yet some of you are going at each other like mad it seems.
Kei
Btw, trickson you need a hug :toast:
Anyway this is nice (albeit a bit behind), I wonder if perhaps intel will follow in kind and release some 3.5ghz chips. T'would be interesting to see a frequency dual.
It's pretty obvious I didn't say that the i7 should be run without it's extra incentives. I along with the owner of that processor were simply stating that when you compared only the raw processor speed of both processors that the speed overall is pretty darn close which is nice.
And for the record some of us with Quads that understand we DON'T need all four cores 100% of the time do happen to disable 2 cores to save heat and power. To some people that don't pay attention to things like that it sounds stupid because the general idea seems to be if you have excessive power it's beneath you to use only what you need. When you put the Quads (at least Phenom's whether I or II) against the Dual core processors the Quads still win when only using 2 cores. That's in the thread too. :D
I do agree with you that Intel will likely put out some chips to attempt to counter AMD if these reports prove true. If both companies do this then customers should be pretty happy indeed. No real need to overclock is pretty cool. Of course the members here will still do it just because. :p
Kei
Let's see some CPU scores from 3DMark tests.
Here you go i7 running full on and PII 940. Pretty good showing I think.
Of course when you play games the numbers for the two are even better. Nice and close both ways. :)
Kei
And the CPU score is so close, even though the PII have higher clock speed.
I didn't prove myself wrong I've showed two different things. One was with the HT and Turbo and the other was without them. Everybody knows that the i7 is faster than the PII with the HT and Turbo on in many applications.
Kei
And with TB, the CPU top speed is 2.8GHz.
Overclocking aside for a meer moment . . . If either Intel or AMD are releasing CPU's at higher clocks, then thats good.
Taking into consideration that most of US overclock, pretty much heavily;
a higher stock speed means a higher top end.
Trickson's Q6600 @ 2.66Ghz is indeed a great CPU. There's not much out there that can compare with its performance/$$$ ability (It made for the ideal HTPC processor :P). Trickson's Q6600 is currently @ 3.7Ghz with his custom water cooling would pretty much be equal to the standard QX9770 with a $1500au price difference. Making the purchase of the 9770 completely stupid for someone with Trickson's ability to overclock.
. . . . . . . . Would love to see what Trickson would have to say/show us if his Q6600 was infact set to 3.7Ghz stock (Yes i know that Intel have no such CPU).
I like the smoke and mirrors because it confuses people, it blinds some, drives some away, but in the end theres only a handfull that accomplish the ending without being deceived.
There is nothing to call here like there was in the P4 days. They aren't turning up the clocks and reselling old crap, the freaking PII's just released this month. Jump off the fanboy wagon and calm down. Don't need to write a paragraph long post every other post in the thread.
You are speculating about if these will or will not clock, let them release and let people judge then. This is completely different than the P4 days, back then you could buy a AMd proc for a cheaper price (didn't need no FX) and spank a more expensive P4. Now your saying a more expensive chip beats a cheaper chip, NO WAY, thats absolutely insanity! You are saying you get what you pay for here, I can't believe it, THIS IS MADNESS! :slap:
would be nice ... AMD Phenom II with higher clock+ DDR 3 can be catch up the Core i7 performance...
also would be nice if AMD put in triple chanel DDR3 memory too
maybe this is only dream...