In 2007 we see Intel beating AMD from every processor, to every processor, and they cannot find a haven to compete Intel on their more efficient and powerful Intel Core 2 Duo’s for almost a year and a half, and to include to the disappointment, that AMD losing its ground on the graphics card war, with NVIDIA, with their Geforce 8 series video card that support DirectX10 games, and AMD/ATI try to compete the race with their Radeon 2000 series derived form the Xbox360 video architecture, with heating and poor performance really brings AMD into the losing side. In 2008 in the beginning they started the Phenom lineup, with their independent four cores, for multitasking and architecture size of 65nm, which is basically the smaller the core, the more efficient in considering power consumption and can reach to clock speeds up to 3.0 GHz with ease.
As for Intel, it really receives great compliments on its Core 2 Duo processor, with almost a year of good performance over AMD, and now they are going to play again with AMD’s new Phenom chips. The two processors that I am going to play with is the Core 2 Duo Q6600 and for AMD is the Phenom 9500, but I would expect that AMD would use their high ender with the Q6600, as I am disappointed to the bugs that Phenom has on its cache, which in turn lowers the expectations of the stability of the chip and to make matters worst the debugger that fixes the bug, may experience slower performance, which may differ the benchmarks that I am going to show you. The Sisoftware Sandra XII (2008) is a software that benchmarks the performance of the processor by letting the processor to calculate complex equations and times the processors finish of the equation. The Phenom performance was 32703 Dhrystone ALU and the 24668 for the Whetstone iSSE3, but cannot speed up while the Core 2 Quad has 40742 on Dhrystone and 30770 for the Whetstone iSSE3, which was a 10000 point lead to the AMD Phenom in both of the benchmarks, even at the same clock speed.
As we crunch up the numbers on the performance and the consumption of the two chips, well the benchmarks really play that Intel is more of the winning side and AMD the losing side. But the multitasking and the normal use is quite better to the Core 2 Quad, because of its independent cores, but gaming is more siding the Intel for pair processor technology than the AMD because gaming is more on the single processor and uses little on the other three, which turns off AMD users for using for game purposes, to choose Intel products. While Phenom is another new choice for AMD diehards for multitasking, but not for gaming and the problems of bugs and debuggers, I would still definitely use Intel core 2 Duo chips, for the mean time.
