Originally posted by: Spoelie
WOW, it really amazes me how little performance has improved. Athlon II X2 250 (3ghz) is barely faster in most benchmarks than a Athlon X2 6400+ (3,2ghz), and loses in 1 or 2.
So the core "redesign" buys as little as 300mhz around 3ghz, or only 10%. Everything else that improved in phenom is uncore.
And this while the original is at 90nm and the new one is 45nm, what a waste of potential. It seems to me AMD could've tried a little harder with the Athlon II.
Wouldn't it then follow that Intel is a bunch of retards as well? The Phenom II X2 is similar to the E7xxx series and the Athlon II X2 is similar to the E6xxx series.
I wouldn't worry about that. The Athlon 3400+ Windsor was AM2 and it took 125W to run. A Phenom X4 9600 only takes 95W. A Phenom II X4 955 (AMD's most powerful processor) takes the same 125W as the Windsor.Dont jump the gun to fast, If the AII X3 or X4 come out you had better watch the watt range, I suspect alot of AM2 motherboards smoking out really quick.
I personally have an eye on the PhenII X2 as the watt ratting is below the AM2 motherboard I have in my personal workstation at work.
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What's most impressive about the new chips is that they use less power than the Intel equivalents. anandtech. Has AMD ever had a power advantage like that?