Thread: AMD 2X4 980 Black Version

AMD has been durably on the aback bottom back Intel appear its Core microarchitecture in 2006. The admirable AMD64 architectonics may accept disqualified the roost in its day, but AMD has yet to appear up with a acceptable acknowledgment to any of Intel’s contempo top-end CPUs. Intel’s Sandy Bridge architectonics has alone circuitous AMD’s position too.


Not alone is Intel acceptable the all-embracing and clock-for-clock achievement ratings, but the Core i5-2500K is additionally one of the best power-efficient CPUs we’ve seen. The antagonism isn’t acceptable to become any easier for AMD either, as Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs, with their Tri-Gate 3D transistors, attending set to extend these achievement improvements added in 2012.




Thankfully, AMD's Llano architectonics has apparent that AMD's new CPU technology can attempt with Intel's designs back it comes to architectonics a cheap, power-efficient gaming apparatus or HTPC. However, until AMD releases its Bulldozer architectonics after this year, the company's Phenom II chips are all AMD has at the top end of the scale, the latest of which is the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition. With a abundance of 3.7GHz, this is AMD’s fastest quad-core CPU to date and, added importantly, it will be the aftermost CPU to abrasion the Phenom badge.


The 980 BE is additionally accordant with Socket AM2+ and AM3 motherboards, and appearance 6MB of aggregate Level 3 cache, additional 512KB of Level 2 accumulation per amount – 2MB in total.


However, the dent additionally has a decidedly low price. The dent costs beneath than the aboriginal amount of Intel’s Core i5-2500K and AMD’s 6-core Phenom, the 1100T BE back they were released.