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
Im sure your right there, they wont be overclockable by much, they never real were =/ The FX-57 had a hard time getting to 3.1GHz, because they were pushed close to there limits out of the box. If they bring out a FX at 4.0GHz i cant see it clocking much higher on air?
It will be nice to see just how high they are able to get them on stock air cooling .
Sorry to fuel the fire guys :-/
Q9550 and the PX4 overclocked perform the same now when AMD goes through with this 3.5ghz core clock thing there wont be a C2Q that can keep up@ stock. on top of that they will give core i7 a run for its money. if priced right they will be the better buy.
I will however say sorry . I do hope to see some INNOVATIONS out of AMD as far as giving the i7 a run for the money well that just makes me :roll: . They are not even in the same league man !
My prediction: it would be around $450 for the PII 3.5GHz, which force the Core i7 940 to reduce price.
I say crank it up pay that premium price and live it up to each there own . Good luck .
Anyways the lower end AM3 models as always will be the popular ones for us, lets hope that they can do 4gig+ on an AM3 board, that will definatly give them competition for enthusists, sadly though 90% of the market is mainstream.
I will buy one for my next upgrade.....not i7 but only because I am bored with the same old Intel and wanna give AMD a play once again.
A P4 at 3.73GHz could not even match a Athlon at 2.8GHz FACT
A P4 over clocked at 4.1GHz could not even match a Athlon at 2.8GHz FACT
My m8s P4 @ 3.2GHz couldn't even match my 2.2GHz Athlon in anything FACT
I will always be talking down the P4 because they are the SUCK FACT, so many people had P4's and they had no idea about Athlon's let alone AMD in general, so all they thought was higher clock speeds meant they was faster FACT, the end. Intel new this and always kept the price high even tho they was getting beat badly against the Athlon's in raw performance.
Even the K7 vs the P4 was doing very well FACT, matching them in performance but having lower clock speeds, thats were AMD's number scheme came into play in the first place FACT. Then the K8 come out and Intel had nothing at all to counter it, the P4 had lost completely FACT.
techreport.com/articles.x/8482/14
www.simhq.com/_technology/technology_066c.html
As you can tell the P4 could not match a Athlon at all, even with a clock speed of over 4GHz a total of 1.3GHz higher clock speed they still couldn't match the Athlons FACT. So to reference to the Phenom i dont think you need to over clock the phenom 1.3GHz or more to match intels Q9XXX series? if im wrong please prove me wrong?
I think you need to get your FACT's straight before you say anything, my guess is that you owned a P4 and got burnt bad? and spent a F load on it and got beat by a CPU half its price?
Intel ought to consider increasing their Core 2 clocks especially after announcing they'll be around longer.
hopefully like i said earlier in this thread maybe this will mean a new FX i see a 4ghz 150w phenom FX coming out Q4.
From awhile back, I can tweak more as I have pushed my GPU higher, and have ran at right below 4Ghz with a few more tenths, but I don;t want to continue to do so.