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New AMD CPUs – official pricing

by Scott Bicheno on 21 September 2010, 05:22

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Boxes of tricks

As you may well have read already - most probably on HEXUS - AMD launched a bunch of new CPUs today.

As ever AMD pays very close attention to Intel's pricing in order to be able to claim superior bang-per-buck versus similarly priced Intel chips. The days of AMD competing with Intel at the very top of the market are long gone, so it's all about bang-per-buck these days.

AMD publishes an online price list, but in the past we've found there has been significant delay between the launch of new CPUs and the price list being updated.

Luckily we've developed some good contacts in the AMD channel and can provide you with the table below showing the channel price of the processor-in-a-box versions - all socket AM3.

Processor
Power (W)
Cache (MB)
Speed (GHz)
Price ($)
Phenom II X6 1075T
125
9
3.0 (3.5)
245
Phenom II X4 970 BE
125
8
3.5
~180
Phenom II X2 560 BE
80
7
3.3
105
Athlon II X4 645
95
2
3.1
122
Athlon II X3 450
95
1.5
3.2
87
Athlon II X2 265
65
2
3.3
76
Sempron 145
45
1
2.8
36


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Better value and cheaper processors are always a good thing but you have to wonder if any of these are particularly relevant given the new architectures coming out next year, although I suppose there's still plenty of people that will NEED to upgrade or change their processor before than, and these might be a good way for them to do it.

Weirdly you posted this before you actually posted anything else about the new processors, oh well.
Pandora92
Better value and cheaper processors are always a good thing but you have to wonder if any of these are particularly relevant given the new architectures coming out next year, although I suppose there's still plenty of people that will NEED to upgrade or change their processor before than, and these might be a good way for them to do it.

Weirdly you posted this before you actually posted anything else about the new processors, oh well.

Yes, my bad, I wrote that without checking when any reviews of the new chips will be out. They are coming soon though…
Scott B;1982219
Yes, my bad, I wrote that without checking when any reviews of the new chips will be out. They are coming soon though…

Good to know, I'll keep watching. :)
Scott B;1982219
They are coming soon though…

Soon as in today, or soon as in this week? You haven't just broken an NDA have you, Scott? ;)
I assume these are all purely speed-bumps. We don't know of any new steppings or anything that would give more room to be overclocked or undervolted do we?