Soleron said:
I know that. Clock speed is a useful way to compare CPUs of the same architecture though. So in this case it ought to be ~7% faster than the previous fastest quad-core Phenom II at 3GHz. Real-world figures will be slighthly less than theory, in this case it's +5% on average. To compare across CPUs of different architectures all you can do is look at real-world figures from reviews. So in this case it would be about as fast as a 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad, or slighly slower than a 2.66GHz Core i7, or about as fast as a 3.6GHz original Phenom. And it should beat 3.1GHz Athlon X2 by a 30% margin in single-thread apps and a lot more in 4+ threaded apps. |
So if that's true then AMD are still playing catch up to Intel in terms of CPU power? I thought these new Phenoms were meant to be a completely new architecture?
Not that it matters much anymore as I can't afford a new PC for a while and my old 3800X2 seems to be chugging along OK for now :P
