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AMD Guns for Intel`s Nehalem with the Phenom II |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 11:54 |
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CRN discusses how Phenom II is gunning for Intel's Nehalem. Yet the Phenom II can’t hold a candle to the top-of-the-line Intel Core I7 -965 EE, which scored a CPUMark of 7610.5 and a MemoryMark of 1179.8. But, one does have to consider that the Intel Core I7 -965 EE is almost four times the cost of the Phenom II. A farer comparison would be to compare the $275 Phenom II against a comparably priced Nehalem, such as the $284 Intel Core i7-920. The i7-920 is a 2.66Ghz processor and scored a CPUMark of 5907, which is a significant step up from the Phenom II’s score of 3348.6. The i7-920’s MemoryMark score is 680.2, which still outpaced the Phenom II’s score of 593.6.
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