Performance
General Performance: SYSmark 2007
SYSmark 2007 testing suite uses typical work scenarios in the most popular applications and tasks.
As you can see after the first few benchmarks, AMD quad-core processors cannot hope for a successful revenge. Despite its improved micro-architecture and true quad-core design, Phenom loses to Core 2 Quad CPUs. Only the overclocked to 3.0GHz Phenom processor can compete with the youngest Core 2 Quad Q6600 from Intel. However, you shouldn’t forget that AMD has not plans to release mass processors with clock speed like that any time soon.
