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Today at Computex, AMD took the wraps off of two highly anticipated processors: the Athlon II X2 250 and the Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition. Both are based on AMD's 45nm SOI process with the key difference being the amount of L3 cache. The Phenom II X2 550, codenamed Callisto, gets the full 6 MB cache of the Phenom II family and will serve as AMD's new flagship dual-core processor. The Athlon II X2 250, on the other hand, is based on the new native dual-core Regor die that omits the L3 cache completely and targets the mainstream segment. Benchmark Reviews was fortunate to receive samples of both processors and today we can officially share with you our results. In this review, we focus on the Phenom II X2 550 BE HDZ550WGIBOX.
The Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition is AMD's first dual-core Phenom processor, and thanks to an unlocked multiplier and 45nm manufacturing process, it has the potential to break some serious overclocking records... This 3.1GHz CPU slips easily into socket AM3 motherboards and Socket AM2+ platforms as well. This is largely due to its integrated DDR2/DDR3 memory controller, which functions in DDR3 mode for AM3 motherboards, and DDR2 mode on socket AM2/AM2+ motherboards
Today AMD is releasing five new processors in their Phenom II & Athlon II lineups. Along with these new chips comes lower prices to existing products, most notably the Athlon II X4 630 (2.8 GHz) will replace the X4 620 (2.6 GHz) at the $99 retail price point! This means that AMD now has two quad core processors priced at $99 or less, and one quad core at only $119!
AMD is kicking off 2010 by introducing new low-power versions of some its most popular processors and bumping up the speed of a select few Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs. Today PCSTATS is looking at the 3.2GHz AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition processor, which amongst other things has the distinction of being AMD's fastest socket AM3 dual-core processor ever.
ITShootOut.com have just reviewed the AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition - which at stock speeds it is nothing more than a decent processor. However when enabling the two hidden cores (making it quad core) - and with some overclocking (both by simple settings in the BIOS) it offers performance close to a Core i7 based PC costing many times as much.
As i type away on my quad core processor with its eight threads i can somewhat feel that a bit of light word processing isn't really pushing its power to the max. Obviously when i need its four cores for some video rendering or photo work, it's ready and waiting. Not everyone needs that amount of computing power though, and it would simply be money wasted.
Since its introduction in January 2009 AMD have offered a large range of various Phenom II series processors. These have ranged from the original AM2+ DDR2 only quad core Phenom II X4 920 and 940 processors right up to the current AMD flagship processor the Phenom II X6 1100T, which was reviewed here on eTexnix in December 2010.
Kerne bei AMD CPUs zu reaktivieren ist eine feine Sache - wenn es denn funktioniert. Einige Hersteller warten neuerdings mit einem neuen Feature auf: Der "EC Firmware"-Funktion im BIOS.
Today we will have a look at one of the AMD:s latest consumer class processors.We will put the Phenom II X3 705e cpu against last generations Phenom 9500 and see if it performs better. Let's have a look.
Back in June 2009, AMD silently launched a pair of energy efficient 65W TDP processors that didn't get that much attention from the press for some reason. Those two socket AM3 processors are called the AMD Phenom II X3 705e and Phenom II X4 905e. Read on to see how they perform!
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