AMD's Response to Intel Conroe: Energy Efficient Athlon 64 X2 CPU

[Ricochet J]

The first impressions left by the new Core 2 Duo processors from Intel that arrived to replace not the best Pentium 4/Pentium D processor families turned out to be highly positive. Since the Intel processors with Core microarchitecture have been officially launched already, we had a lot of opportunities to check out their strengths and attractive features. Core 2 Duo CPUs demonstrated unprecedented performance, relatively low heat dissipation and excellent overclocking potential. Everything indicated that a new favorite appeared in the processor market. It is true, all objective data proves that Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2 processors that used to offer the best combination of consumer-friendly features cannot be a serious competitor to the new Intel CPUs on Core microarchitecture anymore. However, the actual situation is not quite like that.

In response to Intel’s extremely successful Core 2 Duo processors AMD reduced the prices on its Athlon 64 X2 CPUs dramatically. But it was only the first move. Today we are going to discuss the second move: the beginning of mass shipments of new energy efficient Athlon 64 X2 processors dissipating considerably less heat than their predecessors. Read our review for details now!

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Question is, will this be enough to keep up with Intel?

 

[Ricochet J]

Personally, I reckon AMD will wreck ATI
I always liked the fact there were competitors for both CPU and GPUs.