Phenom II X4 970 BE: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Phenom II X4 970 BE sales 21 September 2010. Based on a Deneb architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3.5 and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM3 processor with a TDP of 125 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

Phenom II X4 970 BE processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameDeneb (2009−2011)
Release date21 September 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.5 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache6 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography45 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size258 mm2
Number of transistors758 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X4 970 BE compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM3
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Phenom II X4 970 BE's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version2.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom II X4 970 BE. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



We have no data on Phenom II X4 970 BE benchmark results.


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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom II X4 970 BE, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom II X4 970 BE in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 346 configurations using Phenom II X4 970 BE in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (2/346)
RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7700 XT
0.3% (1/346)
RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800
0.3% (1/346)
RTX A5500 RTX A5500
0.3% (1/346)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.3% (1/346)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.6% (2/346)
GTX 1080 GeForce GTX 1080
0.6% (2/346)
RX 6800S Radeon RX 6800S
0.3% (1/346)
RX 6600 Radeon RX 6600
0.6% (2/346)

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