Home / Component / CPU / AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.


The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition is lagging behind the Intel Core i5 2500k by a considerable margin within all the benchmark tests.

Become a Patron!

Check Also

KitGuru Advent Calendar Day 22: Win one of TWO Sharkoon gaming chairs!

For Day 22 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we are teaming up with Sharkoon to give TWO lucky readers a new ergonomic chair! 

5 comments

  1. I really dont get the Quad core releases, its just opening them up for a butchering. the 6 cores even get beaten.

    They need to massively drop the prices to slot in behind the 6 core versions of their chips or just ditch this range totally.

  2. 1055t is still their best chip for the money, ive seen it on sale for £120 recently. why would you pay £140 or £150 for this 980BE?

    Their GPU division seems much better organised imo

  3. The problem AMD face is that these chips are actually really good, but Intel are 1-2 years ahead on a design level. It just shows how good those new Core i5’s are.

  4. fair review, I bought a 1090t last month and its great, but the cores thing makes sense to me. If they can make good 6 cores, why not just ditch the 4 cores entirely? Its not like their designs dominate and Intel are taking the low end, making it sensible.

    The pricing is way off.

  5. Just what we need, another 100mhz for the same price as before. which does absolutely nothing to compete against Intel.

    Even their six cores are so far behind, so whats the point of this? Why not bring out a six core chip like the 1100T, but clock it to 4ghz (they all run at this no problem), and just be done with it all until bulldozer. Even that is very boring, but at least at 4ghz it might seem interesting.