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: Multi-threaded Performance

Any £150 chip in 2011 needs to be able to churn through multithreaded workloads like a knife through hot butter. The 980 BE does reasonably well, we could say, though it's shown up by the six-core Thuban chips and the new Sandy Bridge processors in a couple of tests.