Quote Originally Posted by Carfax View Post
Phenom is a nice gaming CPU, but the Core i7 is undisputably faster, so I don't see how AT could make such a claim.

And there are also graphs available on their website which contradict the statement.
I found what I was talking about:

"The situation is this: in some cases, Nehalem can go from being much faster than Phenom II, to being measurably slower within the same benchmark depending on resolution. Gary was the first to tie the issue to the GPU used. Gary found that NVIDIA GPUs appeared to behave this way on Nehalem/Phenom II while AMD GPUs didn't. In other words, NVIDIA GPUs were running faster on AMD hardware while AMD GPUs were running faster on Intel hardware. It's all very strange."

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3640&p=3