I was trying to decide what to write: the already way-to-late article on Browsers, or an article on the great and fabulous Adobe Creative Suite 3 at which I finally got a look last week, when suddenly I decided not to write about any of them ( that Browsers article will probably become my own goal in life :P ). So this week I'm writing about the (almost) All New AMD Phenom™ Quad-Core Processor.
The news about it started pouring as early as July when AMD unveiled it at its 2007 Technology Analyst Day and ever since then, there's been much anticipation. Well it is ( or has been for a few days now ) out on the market, and it does have a complete tech profile on their site here .
What I can quickly say about it ( I haven't had the chance to actually use it yet ) is that it sounds absolutely great. AMD took a fresh start on this one, abandoning their classical chip architecture. Instead the Phenom is based on the new k10 microarchitecture technology. This results in excellent performance and you can actually see a list of all the features and benefits here.
Phenom processors will use the same X2 and X4 suffixes used in the Athlon line to differentiate between dual- and quad-core processor variants, and the flagship FX moniker will move over to the top-performing Phenom processor.
The perfect combination ( or at least the one AMD put out for the Technology Analyst Day event) is a 3GHz Phenom FX system running three Radeo HD 2900XT GPU's everything working on the RD790 Chipset, which can support up to 4 , yes that's 4, GPU's in Crossfire. That was just in case you had some money and you were wandering how you could spend it to play Crysis as smoothly as you can play Starcraft 1 now :)). By the way Phenom supports AM2 sockets so no need to worry about that.
The last thing ( and this is probably one of the greatest ) that I will say is about the price. AMD promised to cut down ( a lot )on it, and they kept that promise. The Phenom 9600 processor is at about 245$, which is a reasonable price for it.
Now what I am really wondering is if there will be a response from Intel. I really am waiting on some giant battle between the two that will result in Quad-Core processors to cost less than 20$ :)). Oh well I can always keep dreaming. But seriously Intel will probably respond somehow and everyone's expecting a new extraordinary processor from them.
Disclaimer: Yes yes it's true. I prefer Intel to AMD and Nvidia to Ati :D
Cheers, Geeky.
Friday, December 21, 2007
AMD Phenom™ Processor
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2 comments:
WRONG! First of all there won't be any X2 or X4 suffixes. Secondly, although AMD claims that Phenoms are compatible with AM2...in fact they are not. Tomshardware tested about a dozen AM2 motherboards and they didn't work. And no, their performance is not that great. At least in high-end.
The only thing you got it right is the price part! Be carefull,
Cheers,
All the info used here was from the OFFICIAL AMD SITE and their affiliates, also from the original testers that had described the processor BEFORE it came out on the market. Terribly sorry if the information is not correct but I only relayed what the company said and what the very few first testers said. I also mentioned I never personally got any chance to see/use this processor. So once again sorry.
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