AMD bolsters Phenom II range

 

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By Darien Graham-Smith

Posted on 9 Feb 2009 at 10:27

AMD has expanded its range of Phenom II processors, introducing a range of quad core and triple core processors.

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AMD has added five new CPUs to the line-up, which slot in behind the 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz parts launched last month.

The new quad-core X4 910 is a 2.6GHz part with 6MB of L3, while the X4 810 and 805 have smaller 4MB L3 caches and clock speeds of 2.6GHz and 2.5GHz respectively.

The two X3 processors released today each have the larger 6MB L3 cache - though as with previous triple-core Phenoms, L2 cache is proportionately shrunken compared to the X4s, at 1.5MB rather than 2MB.

Clock speeds are, predictably, 2.8GHz for the X3 720 and 2.6GHz for the X3 710.

UK pricing has yet to be confirmed.