What a nice fight in AMD vs Intel discussion thread once again

Macci, looks like our small tweaking battle made some people very frustrated. I'll push the Yorkfield system over 19610 in 3DMark05 tomorrow

Here are couple of things to consider when comparing the results:

QX9650 price: $999
Phenom 9600: $283

QX9650 scaling with air cooling: ~4,5 GHz
Phenom 9600 scaling with air cooling: ~3 GHz

3DMark is synthetic benchmark and in real world applications you will see different results, don't take 3DMark scores so serious. K10 architecture has some nice potential but with current clock speeds, scaling and L3 TLB issues Phenom has definitely been a disappointment. Hopefully new stepping will improve things in Q1/2008 and we will see close to 4 GHz results with better cooling.