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According to the first references about the prices of 45 NM processors phenom II X4 will be sufficiently attractive. At least, the elder processor phenom II X4 940 Black edition (3.0 GHz) will cost less than the processor core I 7-920 (2.66 GHz). Let us note that the wholesale cost of the latter is equal to $284.
Today associate reported a completely interesting information about the phenom II X4 940 Black edition speed in games, and also about the newest AMD plans . We start from the Phenom II X4 940 Black edition performance in three games and one benchmark 3DMark'06.
The most interesting, that as base for AMD comparison we have the four core processors core 2 Quad q9300 (2.5 GHz) and Core 2 Quad q9400 (2.66 GHz), which are equipped only with 2 X 3 Mb cache in the second level. Obviously, they were selected according to the price segment - their wholesale cost was equal to $266. Most likely, Phenom II X4 940 Black edition (3.0 GHz) will cost about the same money.
The picture above demonstrates the superiority Of phenom II X4 from 8% to 40%.
Although it was officially declared, that two first models socket AM2+ will appear during January.
Moreover, from the road-map now disappeared the processor phenom II X4 920 (2.8 GHz) Socket AM2+, and the processor phenom II X4 945 (3.0 GHz) Socket AM3 appears only in the second quarter 2009. Related Products :
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