Blu-ray Playback AMD Phenom II vs. Nehalem

Compare side-by-side performance comparisons of Blu-ray playback on the AMD Dragon platform vs. Intels Nehalem. You get an amazing HD Blu-ray experience for less with the AMD Dragon platform powered by AMDs highest-performing CPU, the AMD Phenom II X4 processor, and award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series graphics and AMD 7-Series chipsets. With the extra money you save with AMD you can buy more Blu-ray movies, a big HDTV, a cool speaker system or a comfortable new couch. See for yourself.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• AMD
• Dragon
• ATI
• Radeon
• PhenomII
• Athlon
• Video
• Multimedia
• Intel
• Quad-Core
• Nehalem
• Corei7

[galaxy366]

How am i able to see a difference if the video is 240p?

[PowerPie5000]

@malarmaran007 Both Intel and AMD rock in my opinion... Where would they be without the other as competition?

[TheNinwii]

i wonder why it is in 240p? you dont think...

i hate it when companies make comparison`s like this

[epicusername95]

@galaxy366 There is no difference except price

[ibm5155]

even an intel atom can play blu-ray

[ibm5155]

0:18 nop

[Crysis2isOnline]

You know you'd see no difference between running this on an i7, Phenom II, Athlon or Pentium 4 simply because HD video is so easy to do. So why not go for the much cheaper option and by an AMD Athlon rather than spending money on a Phenom II platform. This is actually the logic AMD uses...

[ContinentalHeretic]

@TheDJVAQ AMD failed with Bulldozer lol, I think I'll get a 2500k instead. It looks like AMD are out of the race and will never be able to take up an honourable position again...

[TheDJVAQ]

@ContinentalHeretic lol, funny thing is now, 2 months later when its out, an i7 2600k beats it in every synthetic benchmark on stock speeds and specific computer specs, getting beat by the last intel innovation shouldnt be surprising though.

[NFS13EPIC]

Really 240p :P Really sigh 240p we meet again but this time i want you to GTFO

[ecchibanzaii]

I came here to talk about Bulldo... Oh... Nevermind Sandy Bridge then... Now that is a good topic.

[KuruGDI]

@Ptro001 I never knew that you can turn off HT. In the Intel Systems I've seen it wasn't. Probably because of a bad BIOS.

virtual and logical cores are not the same. In a Quad-Core with HT you have 4 physical ("real") Cores and 4 additional threads (one per each CPU-Core). So you have 4 physical and 4 virtual cores which makes 8 logical cores.