Phenom X4 will be AMD’s first quad-core processor series for the desktop market and with K10 architecture as the base it is a highly renowned and anticipated processor. AMD is expected to launch its new processor series at the end of November and despite the fact that the launch is getting very close now the performance previews are still very few, which is very different from Intel’s marketing of the Core architecture. Expreview has published some of the first comparative benchmarks with AMD’s new Phenom X4 processor and the results could very well explain why AMD hasn’t revealed anything before this.
Expreview has compared Phenom X4 to Intel’s Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, but also Intel’s current processors based on the Core architecture. The benchmark used is none other than the recently released Crysis demo and its integrated processor benchmark paints anything but a pretty picture with AMD’s new processor architecture.
The Phenom X4 processor was overclocked to 3.0GHz, but still gets beat by all three Intel processors (running at the same frequency) in all tests. The AMD RD790 chipset was used in the Phenom X4 system, while Intel P35 was the choice for the Intel processors.
It’s less than a month till AMD will officially unveil its Phenom X4 series, but if these benchmarks are truly representative for the new AMD architecture it will not be able to keep up with Intel…
