AMD Athlon II X4 651 launched plus APU price cuts/raises

Posted on Wednesday, November 16 2011 @ 19:54 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
CPU World noticed AMD has released the Athlon II X4 651, a new Socket FM1 quad-core chip with a frequency of 3GHz, 1MB L2 cache per core, and a 100W TDP. Pricing is $92 but the chip isn't available in retail stores yet.

Additionally, AMD also tweaked the pricing of some of its APUs. The A4-3300 and A4-3400 both saw an increase of $2 to $66 and $71, respectively, while the A6-3500 dropped from $89 to $85. A larger price cut can be found on the FX-6100, this chip fell rom $165 to $155.

Model Cores Frequency Turbo Frequency L2 cache L3 cache TDP Old Price New Price
A4-3300 2 2.5 GHz N/A 1 MB N/A 65 Watt $64 $66
A4-3400 2 2.7 GHz N/A 1 MB N/A 65 Watt $69 $71
A6-3500 3 2.1 GHz 2.4 GHz 3 MB N/A 65 Watt $89 $85
Athlon II X4 651 4 3 GHz N/A 4 MB N/A 100 Watt N/A $92
FX-Series FX-6100 6 3.3 GHz - 6 MB 8 MB 95 Watt $165 $155


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