Phenom II info leaks out, AMD hints at something

[Solus Corvus]

This is really good news for AMD (and the enthusiast consumer) if true. But you guys might want to curb your enthusiasm a little. These are just slides after all, not benches.

[Utnorris]

This is really good news for AMD (and the enthusiast consumer) if true. But you guys might want to curb your enthusiasm a little. These are just slides after all, not benches.

100% agree with this, until we see some head-to-head benches, slides and pie charts mean nothing.

On a different note, 3Ghz or 4Ghz doesn't mean jack if it isn't in the same league as the competition's 3Ghz or 4Ghz chips. I remember when a comapny, not to long ago, changed from listing the speed of the chip to what they felt it equated to the competion's chip based on benches and such. An 2000XP chip was supposed to be equivelent to an Intel 2Ghz chip even though it only ran at 1.6Ghz or such. Maybe Intel should do this, of course there wouldn't be any AMD chips that would match up based on their current line up. For AMD to get me to jump back on board with them, they will need their version of the C2D revolution where the new chip jumped so far out in front of everything on the market it wasn't funny.

Hopefully, this will be AMD's C2D moment and they will finally be competive again. As of right now, they aren't even the value leader since even the base Intel Quads do better than the best AMD quads. Now that I7's are out, I really do not see how AMD can get back into the game, but maybe this will do it for them. I do like the idea that they are not abandoning DDR2 quite yet like Intel is. Maybe that's a good sign.