AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W): specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) sales on October 2008. Based on an Agena architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 65 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 2600 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM2+ processor with a TDP of 125 Watt.

We have no data on Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) benchmark results.

General info

Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameAgena (2007−2008)
Release dateOctober 2008 (15 years old)

Technical specs

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
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)of 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography65 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size285 mm2
Number of transistors450 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierYes

Compatibility

Information on Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) 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)
SocketAM2+
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Virtualization technologies

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

AMD-V+

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W). Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


We have no data on Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) benchmark results.


Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W), according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 113 configurations based on Phenom X4 9950 BE (125W) in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
3.5% (4/113)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
1.8% (2/113)
GTX TITAN GeForce GTX TITAN
0.9% (1/113)
R9 380 Radeon R9 380
0.9% (1/113)
GTX 960 GeForce GTX 960
2.7% (3/113)
R9 280 Radeon R9 280
0.9% (1/113)
GTX 1050 GeForce GTX 1050
0.9% (1/113)
RX 460 Radeon RX 460
1.8% (2/113)

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