Performance: Phenom X3 8750 Versus Core 2 Duo E6550
According to the prices specified by AMD, the Phenom X3 8750 costs approximately the same as the Core 2 Duo E6550 from their competitor Intel.
The X3 8750 is approximately 3.2% slower than the Core 2 Duo E6550 over the benchmark course. The third processor core means that the Phenom X3 is able to get close to the speed of the Core 2 Duo when running multicore applications. It is clearly inferior when running dual core applications.
The smallest Intel quad core processor, the Core 2 Quad Q6600, costs approximately 45 euros (26.4%) more than the fastest Phenom X3 and is approximately 14.6% faster.
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Page 12: Doesn't that diagram show the Core2 as being slower, not the AMD?
Cartwheel?
Is that like Spider, but in a pen?
^lol
And Page 12 is certainly borked - you guys were looking at the results wrong!
And you should have emphasized the X3s encoding-power-for-cheap more. Yeah, it's good for office and media/HD, but you can happily stick a G2 4000+ into a 780G board for much the same effect at a much lower cost, owing to the chipset's unholy knack for HD-crunching