We saw rapid growth of multicore processors in 2009. After AMD launched AthlonII X3/X4 series products, it greatly lowered price of multi-core processors, while the release of Windows 7 also has great effect. This also make Intel products basically lose its price performance.
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In fact, Pentium G6950 s performance make me a bit surprised. after all, it was based on the latest architecture, but obviously this still can not make up core number disadvantage This also shows that core clock is not very important now. when a ordinary dual-core processor face a triple processor will has obviously disadvantage .
on one hand,performance is one factor,other the other hand the prices also is an important factor to decide whether to buy. AthlonII X3 425 price is only $70,but Pentium G6950 price is about $90. if we take into account entire platform price,AthlonII X3 425 motherboard price range is about $58-$73,and you will have many choices. Pentium G6950 whether buy P55 or H55,you will at lest pay $88. so the totally price difference is about $50.
The result is that AthlonII X3 425 in both performance and price performance all better than Pentium G6950 . Thus new product Pentium G6950 still can not threaten AthlonII X3 425 , So AthlonII X3 425 position in the market remains remarkably strong. Of course, if price of Pentium G6950 can reduce to lower than $66 quickly, Intels Core i3 price adjustments to below $88 ,consumers will have a really new choice.
Losing both price and perf, not good, since these are basic "business " cpus, where Intel is supposed to shine