Benchmarking AMD Spider

It looks like Phenom is no match for Intel’s Yorkfield, and it barely keeps pace with Kentsfield, with which it is competitively priced.  The saving grace is that AMD will release an unlocked version for the same price that can be overclocked to 3GHz.

[H] Enthusiast - AMD Phenom & Spider vs Intel QX9770

Here we see our Phenom 9600 keep up with a Q6600, but our Phenom at 3GHz gets trounced by the yet-to-be released Yorkfield QX9770.