Past that, we see that this chip will operate in 32-bit or 64-bit modes with equal ease.
The first four lines are model and make info, nothing exciting here. Today we’ll be looking at the Phenom II X4 910e, the highest-performance edition of the 65W set to date from AMD. Keeping what is nominally a high-performance CPU within that small thermal envelope helps to keep total system power-draw down, while not skimping on performance.
#PHENOM II X4 910E SERIES#
With those two concerns in mind, the 65W series of Phenom II X4 CPUs begins to make sense. Given the ever-shrinking size of CPU dies, reducing waste heat is a primary concern for keeping the system stable. Getting more done with less juice is attractive not only for the reduced energy consumption, but also for reducing the amount of waste heat. With the rise of the green computing movement, another metric has become important to CPU makers: computes per watt. Thus, the market for desktop and notebook processors has moved over almost exclusively to multi-core designs, where previously such was unheard-of outside of high-end academic and corporate environments. Since then, CPU makers have moved away from pure CPU clock speedups, attempting instead to get more done in the same number of cycles.
The most (in)famous example of this was the Northwood series of Pentium 4 chips from Intel, which were ridiculed for being space heaters as much as they were processors. CPU makers found that you simply couldn’t push a chip past 4.0 GHz without incurring ruinous heat penalties. Several years ago, CPUs hit a brick wall on performance increases.
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