Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Found an other interesting comment on the planet3dnow forum.

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The comment comes from mj who was present in austin, it was related to the quote I posted yesterday.

Lot of discussion had happend meanwhile, in case you missed it. He said an Phenom II made a good figure compared to an i7 965. They ran 7zip wprime farcry and crysis.

Does mean an unknown non overclocked Phenom II (3GHz?) performs like an i7 965 (Turbo/HT unknown, 3.2GHz?) running on higher clocks with benchmarks like wprime, 7zip, farcry and crysis.
Thanks justapost!
So the journalist says the comment was about non-clocked/stock Phenom 2 versus i965.The only model listed in online shops that could compete with that core i7 is 3Ghz a940.I guess in those 3 apps the results were close call so he made that comment.But averall,i think Phenom 2 will compete with middle core i7 model @ 2.93Ghz (i940).
I'm interested what wprime numbers does a940@3Ghz achieve.7zip is i/o intensive and faster mem. access + higher L3 clock could help a good bit there.As for fc2 and crysis tests the difference was probably small/non-existent since both are mostly gpu limited in normal gaming situations.
Thanks again for sharing the link.

In other news,Hexus is reporting another price cut round fror AMD lineup,about 10%-20% across the board:
AMD announces another round of desktop CPU price cuts
Scott Bicheno - 26 Nov 08, 4:01pm
As promised

AMD sent out a newsletter to its channel partners today confirming the price cuts it predicted when it last adjusted prices at the end of August.

The cuts will be effective as of the start of December but the new prices weren't published in the newsletter.

This is no hindrance for HEXUS.channel, however, as it gives us an excuse to pick up the phone to Raj Suman, product marketing director at giant distie Avnet, to get the word on the street.

Asked what he thought the significance of the move was, Suman said: "This strengthens AMD's position in the mid market as it enables it to offer even better bang4buck."

The prices below represent approximate street prices from Suman in the context of the volume sales with which he operates.



So we're looking at price cuts of 10-20 percent pretty much across the board from AMD. It has consistently stated it is targeting them mid market and it's certainly done that here.

With Intel's Core i7 targeting the enthusiast market AMD clearly sees this as an opportunity to make further inroads into the mainstream desktop space in advance of the launch of its next generation of processor in the new year.

Tell us what you think; do these price cuts make AMD processors more appealing than they did before? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.