AMD Launches Three New Phenom X4's

Earlier this week AMD announced the launch of three new Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, the fastest Phenom part ever, as well as the new budget minded Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e.

The high-end Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is to date the fastest quad-core Phenom processor AMD has introduced. It features an unlocked multiplier running stock at 2.6GHz, L1 cache size of 64K per core, L2 cache size of 512KB per core and L3 cache of 2MB shared. The 9950 Black Edition carries a retail price of $235 and consumes no more than 140 watts.

The AMD Phenom X4 9350e runs at 2.0GHz and will retail for $195 while the new AMD X4 9150e processor runs at 1.8 GHz and will retail for $175. Both of these CPUs have L1 cache size of 64K per core, L2 cache size is 512KB per core and L3 cache is 2MB shared. All three of the processors are AM2+ compatible like the other Phenom parts and all three new processors are built on 65nm process.