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After months of hype and anticipation, INTEL and AMD have unleashed their next generation processors on the market. While AMD's Phenom line has received luke warm reviews to this point, INTEL's Penryn line has been the toast of the town. Why?
Based on a 45nm process, INTEL's Penryn family of processors is more than just a die shrink of the immensely popular Conroe processors. The dual-core Wolfdale (pictured above) and quad-core Yorkfield (pictured below) are identical in design, with the exception being the number of cores. Both offer a plethora of enhancements; most notably, these new parts boast much better power efficiency and SSE4 instructions, which touts a hearty boost in video encoding performance, among other things.
Today, HardwareLogic breaks down the quad core QX9650. While a casual glance might leave the impression there's little difference between the QX9650 and its predecessors (the QX6800 and QX6850), looks can be, and in this case, are deceiving. There's much more here than meets the eye...
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