Tags: 45nm | AMD | cpu | hardware | Phenom X4 II | review

AMD has had a rocky start with their Phenom X4 line of CPUs.  Entering the market a year ago with tepid performance and a initial TLB bug in the first release silicon the chips seemed to be faited for mediocrity.

But with a changing market dynamic and a decided downward slant on spending a lower cost/performance ratio might be just what some customers are looking for.  Add in the fact that quad core is currently a real concern for massively parallel applications, of which there are still few in the retail sector, and a lower cost option becomes more attractive.

Featuring a 45nm core and boasting solid performance against the Intel Core i7 940 in the benchmarks might just be enough to get this new AMD CPU off the ground.  Check the full review (translated to English) at Technic3D.