AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition CPU review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 May 2011, 08:58 2.5

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Benchmarks: Bandwidth, Latency, and Light-load Tests

The high frequency of the 980 Black Edition's four cores is compromised by a relatively low instructions-per-clock-cycle (IPC) throughput. This means that overall performance is lower than a similarly-clocked Intel Core i5 2500K.