The facts: Phenom doesn't clock very high, it's cheaper than a Core 2 Quad but has a lower performance. Now, if your aren't into overclocking, considering the 9500 can be found for less than $200, while the Q6600 still costs more than $250... how much of a performance penalty are you ready to accept? Let's not forget that the price difference won't go away because  AMD knows they can't ask as much for one of those, as Intel does for the Q6600.

Faced with these facts, it's interesting to compare both processors and the addition of the Core 2 Duo and the Athlon X2 will also illustrate the improvements of the K10.

The results are quite curious. Apart from games, the two real life applications end with something akin to a draw, while the synthetic ones give different champions. What they agree on (both Everest and Sandra), is in giving Phenom a lower bandwidth than that of the Athlon X2. Sandra could be explained because they aren't using SP1 for the last version, but what about Everest? So which one should you buy - we still say Intel all the way. Disagree? You know where to flame.

Link: Legion Hardware.

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