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AMD Announces 45nm Phenom II? |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Monday, 08 December 2008 15:00 |
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EE Times claims that AMD has announced the Phenom II. That is news to us here. Nothing on AMD's news section or Phenom section is talking about Phenom II. AMDcompare.com doesn't show any Phenom II either. I think Phenom II has not been announced yet. I imagine as rumors have said this is a CES launch. The AMD Phenom II chips will run at data rates up to 3 GHz. They come both in 65nm versions in an AM2+ socket for DDR2 and 45nm versions using an AM3 socket for DDR2 DDR3 memories running at up to 1333 MHz. The company claims the new chip provide up to 20 percent improvements in performance over the original Phenom CPUs which ran at up to 2.6 GHz.
The CPUs are available in a new AMD Dragon platform that includes the AMD 790GX chip set and Radeon HD3800 graphics processors and supports DDR2 or DDR3. The chips also support RAID 5 storage, easier CPU overclocking and new power management features.
AMD is rolling out a 3.0 GHz Phenom II for $275 and a 2.8 GHz version for $235. The chips are expected to appear in systems at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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