News - AMD thinks its latest CPU launch surprised Intel

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UK boss of AMD says the Phenom II X4 955 is being positioned against the Core i7 920, but costs less.

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[sawyen]

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..

[tonpal]

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.

[davidcrofter]

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 ...

[Nelly.]

Crysis review on http://www.***********.net/reviews.p...raphics_card/4

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

Crysis 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.

Using AA loses 2fps, I've redone the test @ 3.8ghz with AA on for 58fps.

54.4 FPS