Wednesday, February 8th 2012
AMD Rolls Outs Two More FM1 Socket Athlon II X4 Processors
AMD may be busy building up hype for its Trinity-generation APUs (accelerated processing units) but it's still churning out new chips, the latest releases being the rather low-profile Athlon II X4 641 and X4 638. Both of these models are made on 32 nm technology, have an FM1 packaging, and boast four 'Stars' x86 cores just like those found in Llano APUs (but unlike Llano, these Athlons don't have integrated graphics).
The Athlon II X4 641 comes with a core clock of 2.8 GHz, 4 MB of L2 cache, and a 100 W TDP, while the Athlon II X4 638 features a 2.7 GHz clock, 4 MB of L2 cache, and a TDP of 65 W. Both CPUs are priced at $81 (pricing is for 1000-unit tray quantities).
Source:
CPU World
The Athlon II X4 641 comes with a core clock of 2.8 GHz, 4 MB of L2 cache, and a 100 W TDP, while the Athlon II X4 638 features a 2.7 GHz clock, 4 MB of L2 cache, and a TDP of 65 W. Both CPUs are priced at $81 (pricing is for 1000-unit tray quantities).
16 Comments on AMD Rolls Outs Two More FM1 Socket Athlon II X4 Processors
638: 2,7G X4 w/ 65W TDP
631: 2,6G X4 w/ 100W TDP
am i missing something here?
Just release Trinity already, AMD!TDP, it seems.
Although even as a home server chip it makes more sense to grab a GPU-enabled model.
Black edition FM1 with no GPU core would probably have a fair amount of interest. I wonder if they're gonna make any Black Edition Trinity APUs? If so, they'll probably wait until the end of its lifecycle again like they did with the 3870k (which is stupid to me- focus on the notebook Trinity, but have at least a few launch BEs on day 1 AMD).
There aren't many benchmarks out there that test the FM1 Athlons specifically, but i guess clock-for-clock they perform the same as the APUs. They are no PhII-Killer, that's for sure, but they're pretty close. The 3870K is a decent CPU by itself, but when overclocked it will beat a stock PhII 980.
But it would be fairly interesting to see how far the E-350 would go CPU-wise.