09:40 - Wednesday 23 April 2008 by Bert Töpelt
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon
Categories: Hardware
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon
Categories: Hardware
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Performance: Compared to 2.40 GHz
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If we compare the performance of the Phenom X3 at the same clock rate with a Phenom X4 and a traditional Athlon 64 X2, the benefits of a tri-core processor are shown clearly by the course of benchmark tests.
The Phenom with four cores is 6% faster than the Phenom with three CPU cores at the same clock rate. However, under full load, it requires 36% more energy and costs approximately 10 euros more. When compared to the traditional Athlon 64 X2, the Phenom X3 is roughly 23% faster due to its greater efficiency and the additional CPU core.
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- Intel Fires Up New Atom Processors
- AMD's Athlon Stepping Improvements
- AMD Phenom - A Second Try with the B3 Stepping
- [CeBIT 2008] – Interview with AMD
- A First Look at AMD's Triple Core Phenom
- Overclocking Intel's Wolfdale E8000
- Wolfdale Shrinks Transistors, Grows Core 2
- Intel Skulltrail II - Overclocking and Power Consumption
- Intel Skulltrail I - Feeling the Power of 8 Cores
- Intel Skulltrail III - Eight against Four Performance Comparison
Is that like Spider, but in a pen?
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