Intel QX9650 vs AMD Phenom X4 in Crysis

The guys from Expreview have another exclusive. They got their hands on a Phenom X4 processor and compared it to the Intel E6850, Intel QX6850 and Intel QX9650. The test was done on a Intel P35 and AMD RD790 motherboard with a GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card in Windows XP.

To see which architecture performs best Expreview clocked all four processors at 3GHz.

Here are the results:

Crysis CPU benchmark	Intel E6850	Intel QX6850	Intel QX9650	AMD Phenom X4
Frequency	3GHz (333MHz x 9)	3GHz (333MHz x 9)	3GHz (333MHz x 9)	3GHz (200MHz x 15)
Timedemo Run 0	44.01	45.14	45.46	40.38
Timedemo Run 1	50.42	51.37	51.24	48.27
Timedemo Run 2	51.12	51.63	51.55	48.53
Timedemo Run 3	51.21	51.55	51.56	48.72
Average	49.19	49.92	49.95	46.48

In this benchmark the Phenom X4 doesn't really impress, in a clock-to-clock comparison to chip can't beat the Core 2 processors and most rumours indicate AMD isn't even planning to release a 3GHz Phenom X4 processor this year or in early 2008. If this benchmark is a good indication of the performance of the K10 it seems that AMD will need to agressively price their Phenom CPUs to compete with Intel.