Prices of upcoming Athlon II CPUs

We posted news today regarding pre-order prices for upcoming Intel Core i5-655K and Core i7-875K microprocessors. But it gets even better. We just discovered that forthcoming Athlon II processors are also available for pre-order on Provantage website. We collected prices for current and upcoming dual-, triple- and quad-core Athlon microprocessors, and merged them together with microprocessor features in the table below:

Processor	Frequency	L2 cache	TDP	Price
Athlon II X2 240e	2.8 GHz	2x1 MB	45 Watt	$75.03
Athlon II X2 245e	2.9 GHz	2x1 MB	45 Watt	$87.57
Athlon II X2 255	3.1 GHz	2x1 MB	65 Watt	$72.03
Athlon II X2 260	3.2 GHz	2x1 MB	65 Watt	$83.46
Athlon II X3 405e	2.3 GHz	3x512 KB	45 Watt	$100.94
Athlon II X3 415e	2.5 GHz	3x512 KB	45 Watt	$113.85
Athlon II X3 440	3 GHz	3x512 KB	95 Watt	$76.68
Athlon II X3 445	3.1 GHz	3x512 KB	95 Watt	$97.63
Athlon II X4 605E	2.3 GHz	4x512 KB	45 Watt	$146.23
Athlon II X4 610E	2.4 GHz	4x512 KB	45 Watt	$155.45
Athlon II X4 635	2.9 GHz	4x512 KB	95 Watt	$103.79
Athlon II X4 640	3 GHz	4x512 KB	95 Watt	$132.91

New microprocessors are in bold. As can be seen from the table, new Athlon II top models are just one step (100 MHz) above current top models. The new models are priced at least $10 higher than current Athlon II models, but, if we take into account that prices for pre-order and low availability items are usually higher than prices for high availability items, then we can expect that launch prices for new Athlon II CPUs to be close to prices of current top Athlon II microprocessors.

Update (May 10, 2010): Athlon II X2 240e and Athlon II X3 415e processors were added to the table.