45nm Phenom II Matches Core 2 Quad, Trails Core i7

An anonymous reader writes "AMD recently debuted its 45nm Phenom II processors, and The Tech Report has already run them through a complete suite of benchmarks to see how they perform compared to Intel's latest and greatest. The new 2.8GHz and 3GHz Phenom IIs are in a dead heat with like-priced Core 2 Quads, but they generally fall well behind Intel's new Core i7 chips. TR concludes that AMD's future doesn't look as bleak as some say, and future Phenom IIs could compete favorably with more affordable Core i7 derivatives."

Comments

Re:AMD has failed

[neokushan]

The Athlon (I assume you mean the Athlon 64, the older athlons were a bit...hot...and prone to melting if the heatsink failed) was never a "decent" Chip, per se, it just so happens that netburst was shit and AMD happened to get more things right than they usually do.

I don't know how Intel managed to become so disorganised, but they've shown how powerful they really are as of late.

Re:The problem with Core i7

[kimvette]

I wouldn't take 4GB of DDR2 RAM for $20.00 because it's usually going to be "value RAM" and not very reliable.

As far as $200 for a motherboard goes: if you want a GOOD motherboard with a decent RMA process, a motherboard is generally going to cost at least $225 anyway, so to choose based on motherboard price for a new system, it's a toss-up. To choose based on performance, it's a no-brainer.