AMD Readies New Phenom Chips Built Around Bulldozer
AMD Readies New Phenom Chips Built Around Bulldozer
Posted 12/26/2011 at 9:27am
| by Paul Lilly
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AMD fans were rooting for the Santa Clara chip maker to yank the performance crown from Intel with team green's desktop Bulldozer-based FX series processors. That didn't happen, and it looks like the next batch of Bulldozer processors will skip the high-end hype and attack the mid-range and entry-level markets where AMD has enjoyed quite a bit of success.
Chinese webiste inpai.com.cn did a little digging on the Web and found updated CPU support lists for select ECS and Jetway motherboards. These lists include a handful of unreleased Phenom chips based on AMD's Bulldozer architecture with up to eight cores and with unlocked mulitpliers. There are four new chips in all:
- Phenom II X8 2420: 2.4GHz, 8MB cache, 95W
- Phenom II X8 3020: 3.0GHz, 8MB cache, 125W
- Phenom II X6 2520: 2.5GHz, ?? cache, 95W
- Phenom II X6 2820: 2.8GHz, 8MB cache, 95W
Interestingly it appears AMD is planning to brand these as Phenom II parts instead of Phenom III. When these processors will be available and for how much is anyone's guess.
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praack
January 20, 2012 at 9:45am
not good- the reason for the rebadging as phenom 2 is to confuse the user.
the phenom 2 upper end quads and six cores are still better than the bulldozer cores. which is why current bulldozers are selling the same or lower than a comparable phenom 2 part- no one wants them.
looks like it is back to cpu world and looking up model numbers to discover what core I am looking at. - or just dump the mess and go intel.
So disgusted with the bulldozer fiasco and now this
burntham77
December 28, 2011 at 8:39am
A 95 watt 8 core chip? Even at only 2.4ghz, that's pretty sweet.
thetechchild
December 27, 2011 at 8:54pm
AMD needs to get their shit together... I have a decent last-gen Phenom II x4, and it's not that bad, but honestly, Intel is only pushing further and further ahead! Ivy Bridge is barely even a move up from Sandy Bridge, since Intel isn't threatened at all by what little competition AMD provides. At this rate, ARM will grow to fill the entry and mid range procs, leaving AMD to wither and die.
limitbreaker
December 27, 2011 at 10:41am
Selling a "phenom II" with bulldozer arch would make sense if all amd 2+ and am3 motherboards will support it but i wouldn't understand why they'd brand it in such a way if they have lower end FX series for the budget minded fellas
Ghost XFX
December 27, 2011 at 7:13am
Making these chips is a mistake like no other. They should be moving forward, not backwards or parallel to their previous position.
Vishera have better be off the charts, if they have enough time to create these new Phenom II chips...
RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS
December 27, 2011 at 5:27am
Too bad AMD directors are paid to keep their processors from competing or beating Intel products
nadako
December 26, 2011 at 8:55pm
The FX series has 14MB of cache why step the processor down in cache?
dgrmouse
December 26, 2011 at 7:14pm
There was an AMD exec that was on record with, "You can offer more performance for more money or less performance for less money, but you can't offer less performance for more money." They obviously fired him.
biggiebob12345
December 26, 2011 at 5:44pm
Performance will be <<< Intel. AMD can't even claim the price/performance crown anymore.
mattman059
December 26, 2011 at 7:24pm
Neither can intel...charging $1000+ just for the CPU when your competitor is charging roughly $700-800 less with minimal performance degredation
illusionslayer
December 26, 2011 at 7:49pm
What's that?
Sorry I can't here you because of the $50 I shoved in my ears after I realized I could save that much by going with a 2500k over an 8150 and still having better performance.
Sure, if you want to skew the results, go for it, but I'll warn you that, to anyone that isn't at least as deluded as you, you look like a drooling, propoganda eating fan-boy for including Extreme/Enthusiast chips or even Xeons, without including the AMD alternative, Opteron.
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