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Advantages: Price, performance Disadvantages: New architecture
...the cores is completely disabled. AMD calls this variant the Toliman core.
The low-end part - the X3 8450 - is the slowest Phenom yet, at 2.1GHz, with the mid-range X3 8650 and top end 2.4GHz X3 8750 clocked at 2.3GHz and 2.4GHz respectively. Oddly,
there's no 2.2GHz part, though there's clearly a space for it in the line-up. Despite having one core fewer, the X3s have the same 95W TDP as most X4s.
Windows applications typically derive only a ... ...the triple-core Phenoms aren't far behind the quad-cores in our real-world benchmarks, with the three new parts scoring 1.25, 1.35 and 1.40 at their respective stock speeds.
That's a difference of only around 7% between identically-clocked X3 and X4 parts, and makes the X3 8750 slightly faster, overall, than the X4 9550, which scored 1.39.
The Phenom X3 doesn't break new ground in terms of bang-per-buck: AMD's high-end Athlon X2s already offer ...
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