TDP Levels of senior models Phenom are high . Meanwhile, if Phenom processors exist only in the energy level classes TDP 95 W and above, the Quad Opteron processors have the TDP level of no more than 68-79 MW. Naturally, they work at lower frequencies (1.7-1.9 GHz), but in some applications the number of core may have a higher value than their frequency and the energy level is always important.
In 2008, AMD company is going to release an energy efficient processor Phenom version . They will have a lower voltage compared to the existing models.
Associate Reported that quad processors are targeted to the mass segment, where prices differ , and for this reason the first processors (Phenom) frequency was supposedly limited. AMD here desire to advertise quad AMD processors. But here At the current price level and processors frequency , Phenom lose competing products from Intel, and the release of 45 nm processor Core 2 Quad can only worsen the situation .