WilliamWatts on 24 February 2010
The points in our scatter plots follow almost the same pattern as in our big roundup, but all of a sudden, budget-friendly processors like quad-core Athlon IIs score much better in our performance-per-dollar rankings—no great surprise, perhaps. Interestingly, the Core i5-750 and Phenom II X4 965 remain neck-and-neck in the top two spots, albeit with their positions switched. It's tough to beat Intel's cheapest quad-core Nehalem, especially once you start taking power into the equation, as we're about to do.
So there we have it. An overall judgement of both power efficiency and price/performance from here: http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/18502
So does this give you any new information? Does it reinforce old beliefs or does it break them? Discuss and tell us how you feel about the numbers presented.
