New Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon Athlon II X4 635 were tested with an Asus M4A79T Deluxe.

AMD has launched a new line of processors for Q1 2010, the AMD Phenom II X2 555(3.2GHz Dual-Core) and an AMD Athlon II X4 635(2.9GHz Quad-Core), were tested with an Asus M4A79T Deluxe.

Compared to the core i5 661 with 8089 PCmarks in the synthethic bechmark suite PCmark Vantage the Phenom II X2 555 and the Athlon II X4 635 are way behind with 5535 and 6154 PCmarks, on the other hand the XII 555 is priced just below the $100.- barrier while the core i5 661 is above $ 200.- retail price.

In real world benchmarks like Cinebench the Athlon II X4 635 takes the lead with 10777 Cinebench points, while the core i5 661 has the second place with 10731 cinebench points.

The Athlon II X4 635 and Phenom II X2 555 are good performers, but Intel's Core i5 661 is better in all the benchmarks, the Intel however is (almost) double the price.



In single-threaded tasks, the Phenom II X2 555 is faster than the Athlon II X4 635. In single thread operations, in multi-threaded benchmarks however it beats the XII 555.