AMD announced that it’s releasing six Phenom II in its Phenom II and Athlon II lines, at prices aimed at every budget category. This comes on the heels of the company’s recently lowering the prices on many of its other desktop CPUs, thus filling out every segment of its line before its new Fusion APUs are released in several months.
Among the additions is a new six-core CPU, the 3.0-GHz Phenom II X6 1075T, which is placed (as its name would suggest) between the 1055T and 1090T six-core CPUs it released earlier this year. It’s priced at $239 (list).
Also released are two new Black Edition CPUs, with unlocked multipliers for easier overclocking: the four-core, 3.5-GHz Phenom II X4 970 ($185) and the dual-core, 3.3-GHz Phenom II X2 560 ($105). In its Athlon line, AMD is introducing the 3.1-GHz Athlon II X4 645 ($122), the 3.2-GHz Athlon II X3 450 ($87), and the 3.3-GHz Athlon II X2 265 ($76), which respectively carry four, three, and two processing cores.
According to AMD, all processors should be available soon.
Some of the features of new processors:
- Six-Core Processor with Unlocked Multiplier With the power of six processor cores on a single chip, the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE processor delivers industry-leading multitasking performance with each core having its own L2 cache memory and ability to quickly share data among cores utilizing the L3 cache. Its multiplier is fully unlocked for easy overclocking.
- AMD Turbo CORE Technology AMD Turbo CORE technology is a performance boosting technology that automatically switches from six cores to three turbocharged core for applications that just need raw speed over multiple cores.
- AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture AMD64 technology allows the AMD Phenom II processors to run 32-bit applications at full speed while enabling a new generation of powerful 64-bit software applications. Moreover, all AMD Phenom II processors are built on AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect Architecture, where processors are directly connected to one another. An I/O and memory subsystem are also directly connected to each processor, helping improve overall system performance and efficiency.
- Integrated Memory Controller The AMD Phenom II processors feature a high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller that directly connects the processor to memory for optimum performance, low latency, and high throughput.
- HyperTransport 3.0 Technology HyperTransport Technology (HT or HTT) is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link designed to increase communication speeds between integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and networking and telecommunications equipment. With HT 3.0 technology the AMD Phenom II processors enjoy 4000MHz system bus speeds.