AMD's Fall Refresh: New Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs Balance Price and Performance

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• KikassAssassin - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  On page 1: "The Core i3 540 is priced similarly but you only get two cores, and no Hyper Threading to bridge the gap."
  
  The Core i3 does have HyperThreading. The only Clarkdale CPU without HyperThreading is the Pentium G6950.

• quiksilvr - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  One issue I'm having is the weird color scheme in your graphs. Just make all AMDs green and all Intel's blue. Stop mixing and matching randomly. It makes the colors useless and misleading.

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  I only highlighted the new chips we were focusing on. I debated doing it the other way (AMD green, Intel blue) but figured the focus should be on the new chips. I can understand the confusion though. I've updated the graphs to reflect green for AMD and blue for Intel, if everyone is ok with it I'll keep it :)
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• quiksilvr - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  Much appreciated! A suggestion could be this to differentiate between old and new:
  
  Light Blue for New Intels
  
  Dark and less saturated Blue for Old Intels
  
  Light Green for New AMDs
  
  Dark and less saturated Green for Old AMDs

• vol7ron - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  This sounds good to me - just don't make the contrast too different that we have to look at 4 different colors. The greens should be close enough in spectrum that they can be distinguished but close to the same hue (same for the blue).
  
  That way looking at a glance your brain can quickly compare overall AMD vs Intel, but then giving it more consideration you can tell what's new/old.

• KikassAssassin - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  This sounds like the best option to me.

• JarredWalton - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  I've updated the graphs to use the dark/light colors, though I'm not sure how "new" some of the Intel parts are. Anyway, at least there's a bit of separation to make things "visible".

• quiksilvr - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  You guys are awesome! You're like, one of the busiest gadget sites on the web yet you took the time to read my suggestion and actually implement it!
  
  High five!
  
  (turns off Adblock for Anandtech.com)

• vol7ron - Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - link

  i think the light green is a little too light, but much better

• foundchild1 - Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - link

  Have you guys ever thought about placing the prices of the chips in the benchmark tables for easy price reference? Perhaps just to the right of the benchmarks?
  
  Just a suggestion!
  
  Thanks for this update as well, AMD is starting to regain my interest.