Now it ’s prescribed , AMD has bumped its Athlon processors off the high horse and replaced them with Phenom X2 ( dual core ) and Phenom X4 ( quad effect ) processor , and the fellowship aver these novel chips will be part of its enthusiast chopine it calls FASN8 . The company ’s saying that when you whip these chip together with its DirectX 10 ATI RadionHD 2000 series artwork carte shipped today , you ’ll get , well , some serious graphic performance . We ’ll believe it when we see it , but the ability to have two of these quad - core processors on one motherboard will for certain make for some serious eight - way action .
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AMD added band of bluster along with the announcement , too :
With this announcement , AMD also unleash some world - class marketing guff , calling these Phenom X4 chips the first “ true space core ” central processor , criminate “ other product ” of “ box two dual burden chips to organize their musculus quadriceps femoris core central processor . ” charge such as this volley directed at Intel signal a hot poker chip war on the elbow room .
It ’s going to take a lot for AMD to catch up to Intel , though , but the enhanced operation per watt of these chips , along with their Dual Socket Direct Connect computer architecture , 128 - number FPUs and shared L3 cache might just put a bit of estrus on Intel for a while . We ca n’t wait to see the benchmarks on these chips , because until we see the carrying out numbers game , this just sounds like a lot of mumbo - jumbo .
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