AMD Phenom 9600 and 9900 Review: Barcelona on the Desktop @ PC Per

**MIG-31** · Nov 19, 2007, 07:45 AM

Review: PC Perspective
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Today marks one of the most pivotal days in AMD's recent history -- the launch of their new desktop core architecture to replace the ever-lasting and ever-loved Athlon 64 core. Since 2003, the on-die memory controller and 64-bit addressing have made AMD a dominant player in the CPU world and not just a footnote in Intel's resume. Recent months have been hard on the Athlon 64 though as Intel's Core 2 series of processors are powerful and power efficient leaving the aging architecture from AMD's past behind.

IvanV · Nov 19, 2007, 01:15 PM

Those numbers aren't pretty.

Perhaps the results were affected by some BIOS/chipset drivers glitches. I hope so. The performance per watt seems ok, performance per clock seems to be on pair with Core 2 architecture, but the clockspeeds are lower, and so are the scores compared to Intel quad core CPUs.

Zelig · Nov 19, 2007, 02:16 PM

Should have been released last January to be competitive purely performance wise.

Nov 19, 2007, 07:45 AM	#1
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Nov 19, 2007, 01:15 PM	#2
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,919 Rep Power: 336 System Specs	Those numbers aren't pretty. Perhaps the results were affected by some BIOS/chipset drivers glitches. I hope so. The performance per watt seems ok, performance per clock seems to be on pair with Core 2 architecture, but the clockspeeds are lower, and so are the scores compared to Intel quad core CPUs. __________________ If anyone has Portal 2 and hasn't played the co-op and wants to do me a favour, let me know (PM me or whatever).

Nov 19, 2007, 02:16 PM	#3
Zelig HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,187 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Should have been released last January to be competitive purely performance wise. __________________ --