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AMD Phenom II X4 980 Reviews

DigitalVersus

07/2011

8.0/10

CPU Reviews

The Phenom II X4 980 is the highest-spec four-core CPU in AMD's Phenom II series. Like other processors in the range, this model has 2 MB of cache, but its monster clock speed of 3.7 GHz means this CPU boasts the same performance levels as Intel's Core i5 750 (four cores, 2.66 GHz with 3.2 GHz turbo mode). For more in-depth information about the Phenom II X4 900 four-core processor series, please see our detailed review of theAMD Phenom II X4 965. Plus, with our performance index tables, you can compare of all the CPUs we've tested to date at a glance.

TechRadar

07/2011

8.0/10

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition review

While Intel has the performance end of the CPU market sewn up, AMD has been looking out for the little guy, focussing squarely on the mainstream market and cheap chips with competitive processing chops. The Sandy Bridge family might be your go-to guys at the moment for CPU upgrades thanks to Quick Sync and Turbo Boost technologies, but if every penny counts, AMD's Phenom II chips squeeze every drop of performance out of a middling budget. The compromise though is some architecture that's getting rather long in the tooth. The X4 980 Black Edition is no exception. Pound for pound, it delivers excellent performance. HyperThreading though is off the menu on the AMD side so you're relying on four threads and four cores to slice through processing tasks. How much of a problem that is depends on your CPU's workload – video encoding and design apps make good use of multi-threaded processors, and although games have been slow off the mark, we've seen some big titles recently that do work with multiple cores and threads to speed up rendering tasks. That X4 architecture's a bit old now – it was after all AMD's first quad-core architecture.

HotHardware

05/2011

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU Review

Although much of the scuttlebutt lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, the company isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. In case you haven't noticed, over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. We should also point out that AMD has done so with little disruption to their relatively low pricing structure; as a newer, faster processor is released in a given product family, it occupies the historic top spot while the existing products have simply been pushed down the stack to lower price points. Maybe we're being a bit optimistic, but today's launch of the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet, technically speaking. While the six-core Phenom II X6 1100T can Turbo up to 3.7GHz on half of its cores under certain conditions, the new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz, a mere 8.1% frequency boost away from the mythical 4GHz.

Bjorn3D

05/2011

7.5/10

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition

We thought we saw the last of the K10 based processors from AMD with the release of the Phenom X6 1100T BE and the Phenom X4 970 BE, but we were wrong. While we probably will not see any new six-core Phemoms until Bulldozer arrives, AMD has bumped up the fastest quad core by 100MHz and put out the Phenom X4 980 BE. The Phenom X4 980 BE runs at 3.7 GHz and costs $197, and will replace the current flagship quad core Phenom II X4 970 BE. Besides the 100MHz speed bump, there are no other changes to the processor. The processor still fits the 125W TDP, with 6MB L3 and 2MB total L2. It is still based on the Deneb core so users will not get TurboCore support like the six-core Thuban based processor. The new processor's pricing means that the processor will be in direct competition against the Intel Core i5 2500K. We have already seen the performance of the Sandy Bridge and with the Hyperthreading support, the Intel system would ended up faster in heavy threaded application. However, with 3.7 GHz running on all four cores, AMD wins in the raw clockspeed--the Core i5 tops at 3.3GHz when all four cores active.

HotHardware

05/2011

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU Review

OverclockersClub

05/2011

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Processor Review

There is an old saying that you can never have too much of a good thing. Well this is the case here with the latest of the AMD Phenom II X4 series processors. AMD has launched a number of Phenom II series processors with most of them being "refreshes". This means they are basically the same silicon in the lower clocked chips with a bit more juice squeezed out of them. Most consumers would question this type of release but there are a few things that make refreshes like these important for end users. First they drive down prices of the lower clocked chips which bring great bargains to those of us looking to update our systems. Second, AMD guarantees the speeds. Sure, anyone can take a Phenom II X4 965 and push the speeds with overclocking to match the newer chips but what happens if during the overclocking, you burn out your chip? You are out of luck. But, if you would have spent a bit more for the higher factory clocked chip, already at the speed you were trying to reach, you still have a warranty and a bit more headroom to overclock with :). Today we are going to be taking a look at the latest Phenom II X4 refresh that will be available on store shelves soon. The Phenom II X4 980. The 980 is a quad core processor clocked at 3.7GHz for blazing fast speed. It still has the same 6MB L3 cache and 2MB total L2 cache, socket AM3/AM2+ compatible and support for HyperTransport 3.0.