The 9900 Quad Core Phenom runs at 2.6GHz and is a surprisingly nimble overclocker. We check out power consumption, performance, and also push this thing to its very limits.

I was actually quite pleased with the performance of the Phenom 9900. Given AMD's public commitment to fixing the TLB errata, and their move to 45nm with the "K10.5" architecture (Barcelona with some additional improvements) I suspect that AMD will be more competitive on the high end sometime next year.

But even until then... looking at the benchmarks, it did not seem like the Phenom 9900 was that far behind - if it was in fact behind at all.



Link: Neoseeker