| Saturday, January 3 2009 |
AMD will be launching its 45nm desktop CPU lineup with two of its flagship CPUs, the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition and Phenom II X4 920, clocked at 3.00 GHz and 2.80 GHz respectively. Retailers can start selling these two processors in the processor in a box (PIB) form starting from January 8.
The suggested retail prices for the EMEA region according to NordicHardware are around 250€ for the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition and 220€ for the Phenom II X4 920. The same source points at the US markets' suggested pricing, which states US $280 for the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition, and $230 for the Phenom II X4 920. This puts AMD's flagship processor in the price range of Intel's Core i7 920 and Core 2 Quad Q9450 processors, while AMD's platform costs will be much lower than those of the Intel Core i7.
Source: NordicHardware
The suggested retail prices for the EMEA region according to NordicHardware are around 250€ for the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition and 220€ for the Phenom II X4 920. The same source points at the US markets' suggested pricing, which states US $280 for the Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition, and $230 for the Phenom II X4 920. This puts AMD's flagship processor in the price range of Intel's Core i7 920 and Core 2 Quad Q9450 processors, while AMD's platform costs will be much lower than those of the Intel Core i7.
Source: NordicHardware
User comments
by: GoriLLakoSThat's weak :( Slower than kentsfield in avg.
And the Clock To Clock Comparison is ready too :)
http://www.hwbox.gr/showthread.php?t=3253 and via google translate here
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=el&tl=en&u=http://www.hwbox.gr/showthread.php%3Ft%3D3253&usg=ALkJrhgnQ0mrzA7_b2KgTWUqeO6ikbV6gA
Don't wait to read everything smoothly with the google translate. The Charts are "speaking" by themselves :)
by: insiderQ9300 basically replaced the 6600 in that spot.
The Q6600 could be found for as cheap as £120 in some places (far cheaper than the EU price of the PII 920), easily clocked to around 3GHz+ with stock cooling, although the PII could be easily clocked higher to around 4GHz~ it still lags behind the 'ancient' Q6600 as the best bang for buck quad.
When you are playing catchup like AMD you gotta start somewhere, now we need to see something that would surpass the i7 fast.