AMD launches its fastest desktop processors ever

Chipmaker AMD announced two new quad-core Phenom II processors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. This comes in the wake of the official rollout of its first 45nm Shanghai CPU just weeks ago. The Shanghai processor is a quad-core processor designed for the PC server market. The Phenom II processors, on the other hand, pack 8MB of cache and are positioned squarely in the consumer desktop market. They also run at up to 3GHz, though AMD has demonstrated an over-clocked Phenom II processor running up to 4GHz just on air cooling.

Even though the Phenom II processors represent the fastest processors ever released by AMD, they flounder when pitted against Intel's fastest Core i7. Benchmarks show the Intel processor coming out about 22% faster, though the AMD system delivers better "performance per watt" figures. AMD's Phenom II processors are immediately available.

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