Read more.UK boss of AMD says the Phenom II X4 955 is being positioned against the Core i7 920, but costs less.
Read more.UK boss of AMD says the Phenom II X4 955 is being positioned against the Core i7 920, but costs less.
Nope.. don't think it did really..
955 wasn't all that suprising..
But I have to say the 720 BE is probably the most significant shock to intel as it instantaneously renders all their Core 2 Duo chips obsolete..
Honest..
Me want Ultrabook
Andrew Buxton needs to look at some benchmarks. The X4 955 competes well against Core 2 and hopefully will compete as well against Core i5. The entry of the Phenom II range has introduced competiton at the mainstream quad level and has been a great benefit to consumers.
To claim it is competitive against Core i7 sets unrealistic expectations which do not do AMD any favours.
Realistically Intel still beats AMD with the i7 v X4 955 but unfortunately for Intel once you factor in the £150 minimum price of a motherboard to go with this chip then it doesn't stack up so well, add in the uncertainty on Intels socket types (at the moment) and the AMD might look a better, cheaper and far safer option ...
Crysis review on http://www.***********.net/reviews.p...raphics_card/4Crysis Benchmark I ran using my rig, this is using a 24" TFT at 1920x1080 / AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ 3.6ghz stock volts.CPU: Intel Nehalem i7 920 Skt1366 2.66GHz (@3.835 Ghz)
Motherboard: DFI X58 UT T3eH8
Memory: 3x2GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz @ 8-8-8-24
HD : Hitachi Deskstar 7k160 7200rpm 80GB
GPU: XFX GTX295
Graphics Drivers: GeForce 181.22
PSU: Gigabyte ODIN 1200w
Using AA loses 2fps, I've redone the test @ 3.8ghz with AA on for 58fps.
54.4 FPS
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