Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

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Is this a competition?
Do you feel better if I say that you win?
The main argument in gaming when threaded games are used for AMD hasn’t been talked about as much here. It’s about bottlenecks. We mostly talks about which can get highest avg FPS.
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All the data produced in this thread are games that are multithreaded across all 4 cores...

Lost Planet, GRID, World in Conflict utilize all 4 cores. Gosh -- clock for clock, Intel produces a computational result faster than AMD does single threaded, dual threaded or quadruple threaded... there is no question.

Does this make the Phenom a bad CPU? No. Does it require AMD to price it accordingly? Yes. This is why AMD is losing billions, they cannot make a profit and charge 200 bucks or less for a quad core processor, while trying to support the low end with dual cores that are even slower than the competition.