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JustJosh Yeah, it better outperform the old Core 2 series, Core 2 has been out for quite some time and has been discontinued by Intel. Phenom II is a new processor so it should theoretically be much better than the older Core 2 series.
AMD claims Phenom II outperforms Core 2 Quad in multimedia
DV Hardware —
Expreview got their hands on a leaked marketing slide from AMD that tries to show the multimedia superiority of the upcoming Phenom II 940 3GHz processor over the Intel Core 2 Q9400 2.66GHz and Intel Core 2 Q9300 2.5GHz processors. ...
Thursday Shortbread
The Tech Report: News —
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki 2:10 AM on December 4, 2008 Thursday Hogan's Litvack (lawyer) discusses Google / Yahoo Icahn says he opposes partial sale of Yahoo The Register reports AMD tweaks 2009 chipset roadmap C|Net reports Intel, Nvidia bookend iSuppi's top-20 chip ranking Expreview reports dual-GPU GTX 260 GX2 officially branded as GeForce GTX 295 and Phenom II outperforms Core 2 in multimedia performance? Bill Gates presses Obama on stimulus package, foreign aid President-elect Barack Obama uses a ...
Phenom II Entertainment and Multimedia Performance Slide
AMDZone Frontpage —
Thanks to Dante for this link to a slide comparing the Phenom II 940 to the Q9300 and Q9400 in Povray, iTunes, WME9 and more. The slide is from AMD, and the Phenom II wins, but of course it also has a clock advantage here as well.


