Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
Architecture is definitely a problem, seeing as how as the E6600 and Q6600, for the same hardware.fr benchmarks have nearly the same performance advantage (even when clockspeed is accounted for) over Phenom as the Phenom has over the Athlon X2. So, AMD needs to clock at least 10-15% higher than Intel to be competitive but given the current power consumption, doesn't have the thermal headroom to do so even if the core can scale that high.
Architecture is not the problem. K10 is quite a bit more efficient than K8. In fact, it's equally as Core is than NetBurst. AMD needs to scale clock speeds the way they planned to. In my opinion, they should not have released Phenom X4 until they had ironed out production issues and errata.