Well, i guess that article ( http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dualcore-shootout.html ) pretty much says it all: AMD today has absolutely nothing left on its side (except maybe some maniac fanboys), adn the situation only points to even worse days to come for the next couple of years. A pitty i'd say, but that's the price you pay for taking 5 years to improve a core's theoretical performance by 10% (i.e. clock for clock) and practically losing 10% (max 2.6GHz vs 3.2GHz). Well, at lest AMD confirms it remains the undisputed expert in one field: shooting itself in the foot.

Ok, the Phenom processors are hard to get hold of at the moment, but it's a bit unfair to only benchmark old Athlon X2's against the newest 45nm Intel chips.