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.
