AMD Introduces New Six Core and Expanded Desktop Processor Lineup

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AMD today announced new arrivals to its processor line giving more reasons than ever to upgrade to the visual experience of a new PC featuring VISION Technology from AMD. These processors join AMD’s award winning AMD 8-series chipset and ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series graphics for PCs that combine stunning high definition video and 3D graphics with multi-tasking performance.

*The AMD Phenom™ II X6 1075 processor slots in just below our flagship 1090T model, offering high-end features like Turbo CORE acceleration technology and six-core performance for less than $250.

*The AMD Phenom™ II X2 560 Black Edition processor is an affordable alternative for enthusiasts looking for performance tuning capabilities for more performance or lower power consumption.
 
975 seems to be a good choice, but around where i live, the price bump to 1090 isnt that big, but clearly... chop some heads of some of intels lineup, but intel has other parts covered.

Compotition, what can be better ?
Now nvidia, give me cheap videocards please :p
 
mjz_5 said:
why dont they make the E cpus easier to purchase?
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I believe because they sell most of them to OEM's for slimline machines where they don't want to have to re-engineer the PSU's (for higher power) and cooling solutions (for higher thermals) that they already have. In a way, paying a few dollars more for a low power processor saves them an order of magnitude more money on the components necessary to support the high power processors in these particular types of machines.
 
mjz_5 said:
why dont they make the E cpus easier to purchase?
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because there is more money from OEM's for the "e" chips. Sure there is a niche market from consumers for them(maily HTPC), but most of those buyers will pay less and just downclock the chip.
 
Unless you've found a use for six cores (I haven't), the 975 is the best idea because of the clock speed. Gonna last you long and do a great job with the software of today and tomorrow, even after developers have begun implementing six-core support. Sticking with my 965 until 2012 and then it's BD time unless they've been put out of business by then - or a new BD socket is due.
 
1) its the 970.....

2)I have several applications that actually use my six cores.......BC2 utilizes them, video encoding/transcoding, folding.....need i go on? there is much more....

3) My 1090T gets to 3.7 on stock voltages......add a bit to get to 4.0 with little to no effort, gee just like the 970.......


so you may want to take a look around, there is a plethora of applications that are very multi threaded, and will scale across all 6 cores....
 
I have the 1055t. The only bad thing about it is that it is not a 1090t. ;)

I definately use all the cores. same reasons as W.Feather.
 
but, but, but , but the article said they were hard to find !
 
@SpeedyVV , So your saying it was an OC dog? Even going up to 1090 speeds, which would make it a 1090! Minimal OC by anyones standards. If true thats sad.
 
I'm disappointed AMD didn't make this its first implementation of turbo CORE for non-hexa core processors. Having CORE on the X4 970 would be a good application, as lots of programs are at least multi-core enabled.
 
W.Feather said:
1) its the 970.....

2)I have several applications that actually use my six cores.......BC2 utilizes them, video encoding/transcoding, folding.....need i go on? there is much more....

3) My 1090T gets to 3.7 on stock voltages......add a bit to get to 4.0 with little to no effort, gee just like the 970.......


so you may want to take a look around, there is a plethora of applications that are very multi threaded, and will scale across all 6 cores....
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Agreed and the number of core aware apps will only increase in the coming months. We've reached the point where multi-core (3/4+) are becoming a standard. I'd say by the middle of next year we're gonna be a in good place.
 
I'm interested in the 25w to build a slimline with other parts I already have. This will be for my niece in Brazil...winter is 70-75 there, summer is 100f+, and no AC at all (nor much desk space).

Not too interested in the atoms due to them being too slow...
 
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Zachstar said:
Wut he said!

For 25W you can always underclock and undervolt
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yea the thought of a 25w dual core just makes my mouth water.. Hell I am psyched today I bought a Phenom 9150e (65w) from someone here to replace the Athlon 64 x2 5600+ (89w) thats in my HTPC
 
Nice buy man! now take it down to 1.2 or so and get those volts down down down! Being a quad core your HTPC applications wont choke if you have a video card in there that can hardware accelerate.
 
Zachstar said:
Nice buy man! now take it down to 1.2 or so and get those volts down down down! Being a quad core your HTPC applications wont choke if you have a video card in there that can hardware accelerate.
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Using onboard w/ 630a/7050 chipset
 
bastage said:
Using onboard w/ 630a/7050 chipset
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That chipset seems to use Purevideo but an early version so I dont know how much it can decode.

have you done any testing on it yet? You said you replaced the core so you spent some time with this chipset. How much did 1080P need from your CPU instead of the chipset?

What I am trying to do here is trying to see if you can underclock it even further without compromising your video playback. 45W is about Holy Grail when it comes to HTPCs because you can passively cool it with certain coolers with their fans removed by that point.
 
MrLonghair said:
Unless you've found a use for six cores (I haven't), the 975 is the best idea because of the clock speed. Gonna last you long and do a great job with the software of today and tomorrow, even after developers have begun implementing six-core support. Sticking with my 965 until 2012 and then it's BD time unless they've been put out of business by then - or a new BD socket is due.
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The big use for four (or more) cores, especially at AMD's downright scary price points, remains virtualization beasties. With even four cores, let alone six, you can run a *server OS* as a background task/VM by throwing two or three cores at it (by server OS, I'm talking anything from Linux up to even Windows Server 2008 R2) on inexpensive desktop hardware. (At least, that seems to be HP's argument with their surprisingly inexpensive six-core Pavilion towers; they all start with 8 GB of RAM and 1 TB of hard drive, albeit slow WD Caviar GP, and value, though discrete, AMD HD5570 graphics - not one starts over $1000USD, even brick-and-mortar.) Otherwise, four cores = overkill (six cores = extreme overkill).

To be honest, the reason why *I* would have a hard time passing such a system up is due to the price - it undercuts similar i5/i7 configurations by a ton.
 
bastage said:
yea the thought of a 25w dual core just makes my mouth water.. Hell I am psyched today I bought a Phenom 9150e (65w) from someone here to replace the Athlon 64 x2 5600+ (89w) thats in my HTPC
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Rermember that e chips are just hand picked / binned normal cpus that are factory undervolted and factory underclocked so that they fit in a new maximum power rating. There is nothing special about these chips. Also if you would have just ran your 5600 at 1.8 GHz instead of 2.8 GHz I can gaurantee that it would fit in the 65 W power envelope (probably even lower). Although the Phenom does have a better IPC than the X2 so you would have to run it higher to have the same performance. And then undervolt to fit the power envelope.
 
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