Hardware Roundup: AMD Phenom X3 Edition
Category: CPU'sPosted: April 23, 2008 04:39AM
Author: Nemo
As you can tell by reading the news here at OCC, today is the release date of a trio of triple-core Phenom processors from AMD. Based on the same architecture as it's X4 quad-core processors, AMD is positioning these below their quad-core chips price-wise which makes them comparable to competing dual-core processors. When the triple-core processors were announced by AMD last year, there were many an eyebrow raised about the odd number of cores, especially as most have never considered anything but a multiple of two in terms of cores. The more cynical pundits speculated AMD was simply trying to find a market for failed quad-core chips. Whatever the reason, we now get our first chance to see how the X3 processors perform.
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