AMD Phenom vs. Athlon Scaling Compared

Tom's Hardware compares AMD's Phenom 9000 (up to 2.8 GHz, quad core) and Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0 GHz, dual core).

"We compared the Athlon 64 X2 and the Phenom 9000 at different clock speeds from 2.2 GHz and 2.8 GHz, to find out if Phenom can reach better performance per clock at increasing clock speeds. ... As you could see in the benchmarks section, Phenom delivers better performance across almost all the benchmarks. ..." [Tom's Hardware]

The motherboard used for testing was an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe, AMD 790FX.

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