Intel Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown
While we’re still comparing to Socket-939 and only using RD480, it does seem very unlikely that AMD would be able to make up this much of a deficit with Socket-AM2 and RD580. Especially looking at titles like F.E.A.R. where Conroe’s performance advantage averages over 40%, it looks like Intel’s confidence has been well placed.
Also keep in mind that we are over six months away from the actual launch of Conroe, performance can go up from where it is today. We also only looked at the 2.66GHz part, the Extreme Edition version of Conroe will most likely be clocked around 3.0GHz which will extend the performance advantage even further.
Holy shit. Wow…just wow…40% average advantage. I guess we know what will be my next processor. 
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