AMD Phenom II X4 B99 Processor Spotted

Apart from consumer grade processors, AMD also designs and distributes a special line of CPUs that is destined to find its way into business desktops called the B-series, a recent leak just detailing what is to become the fastest 95W CPU in the company's corporate range, the Phenom II X4 B99.

Just as most of the other Phenom II X4 processors, the B99 is based on AMD's Daneb core and is clocked at 3.3GHz, as a CPU-Z screenshot brought to out attention by the CPU-World website shows.

This makes it only 100MHz faster that the previous fastest clocked processor in AMD's business line, the Phenom II X4 B97.

However, both processors share a similar feature set, including SSE3 instructions and virtualization support, enhanced virus protection, Cool'n'Quiet 3.0, CoolCore technology as well as dual dynamic power management.

In addition, each core features a 64KB data and a 64K instruction L1 cache, 512KB of Level 2 cache memory and an shared 6MB L3 cache.

This part also comes with an integrated 667MHz memory controller, one 2GHz HyperTransport link and is based on C3 revision of the Daneb core.

Judging by the processor picture provided by one of CPU-World's readers, AMD is manufacturing these chips since the 41st week of 2010 (the end of September).

Based on the information provided, the B99 seems to be really similar to the not yet released Phenom II X4 960 that is also clocked at 3.3GHz and carries an 95W TDP.

Both processors are expected to be launched in Q1 of 2011, but a more precise date has not been provided by AMD.

As far as pricing goes, the Phenom II X4 B99 has already been listed on the eBay website for $181, but this is most certainly destined to change once the CPU is officially launched.