Benchs for the Phenom II Posted on 03/12/2008 at 12:04 by Marc
Expreview has published the first benchmarks for the Phenom II. The figures should however be taken with a pinch of salt as they come directly from AMD. Compared to a Q9400 (2.66 GHz) which is likely to be at a similar price, the Phenom II 940 (3 GHz) would seem to be significantly faster, the difference varying between 5 and 15% in multimedia applications.
Figures have also been published on game performance but given that we don’t know if the graphics cards used were the same, there seems little point giving the results. It remains to be seen if these levels of performance for the Phenom II, which are to be expected given its clock frequency, are borne out in practice. If they are, Intel will probably be forced to react by readjusting the price of its Core 2 Quad range.
