Although the release of the AMD Phenom processor series took place back in November of last year, roughly four months ago now, the highly touted quad-core processor has received limited action so far in the computer world and a lot of negative press coverage for reasons we have documented well enough during all this time.

In our hands-on experience with the first wave of Phenoms, we didn't think the situation was as dire as many made it out to be. But regardless, it was a combination of a poor product launch with corporate financial trouble that raised the company to the spotlight.

In terms of performance, AMD has stated that the new B3 processors will be no faster than the original Phenom X4 CPUs without the TLB erratum fix enabled on a clock-for-clock basis. Therefore the Phenom X4 9600 and the new Phenom X4 9650, for example, should be no different in terms of performance. Just as well that should mean that today’s flagship Phenom, the X4 9850, should sit somewhere between the Phenom 9700 and 9900 processors that we reviewed earlier this year.

It will be interesting to see how the 9850 stacks up against the rest of the Phenom family and of course, Intel's Q6600.

View: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition review @ TechSpot


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by mrmckeb on 14 Apr 2008 - 09:00
...Black Edition...
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by +Beastage on 14 Apr 2008 - 09:38
(mrmckeb said @ #1)
...Black Edition...


Yeap, AMD pr machine calls unlocked multiplier a Black Edition... what were Intel thinking unlocking multipliers on their CPUs without properly naming them...

Anyway Techspot review needs a bit fixing they have some of graphs colour coding wrong, for instance the everest tests got mixed.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by reaper1576 on 14 Apr 2008 - 09:43
Ive seen them reach better overclocks than in that review hitting the 3ghz easy
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by MrChuang on 14 Apr 2008 - 10:02
Finally AMD have pushed through I've got a good feeling that AMD will come back in the next year or so, so i'll stick with them
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by ahhell on 14 Apr 2008 - 10:51
Uh. Do you work for them or something?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Raiderman on 14 Apr 2008 - 13:43
I own the 9850 and love it. Everything set to auto and just raising the bus speed, I am at 2.8ghz. Have not had a chance to mess with it further.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by micro on 14 Apr 2008 - 19:56
that review was horrible and biased. AMD's new processors do not beat intels E8400 in any test..
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Narlzac85 on 15 Apr 2008 - 04:11
Thats not true at stock speeds. Heavily multi-threaded applications run better on 4 cores just look at 3d studio with its linear scaling with clock speed and core numbers, but I agree that those game benchmarks don't look quite right. Overclocking could be a completely different story since the e8400 would do much better and possibly surpass the phenom in rendering as well.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by epple on 15 Apr 2008 - 08:53
I wonder why the Intel Q9xxx-series wasn't represented in the test, seeing as the Q6600 is over a year old by now.. Too high price compared to the Phenoms perhaps?
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