AMD Dragon promises 40% more performance than Spider

Posted on Tuesday, November 18 2008 @ 20:55 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Leaked AMD slides unveil the upcoming Dragon platform may be over 40 percent more powerful than Spider in HD gaming. The Spider platform featured AMD Phenom processors, the Radeon HD 3800 series and 790FX chipset. A launch date for Dragon is unknown, but TweakTown speculates it may be before March 2009.

AMD’s Dragon platform, clearly more powerful than a mere spider, is set to become the new gaming platform for AMD in 2009, if leaked documents seen by our editors are to believed. The Dragon platform includes the Phenom II processor, new and revamped 790 series motherboards and Radeon HD4800 series graphics hardware.

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