AMD has launched their new 45nm consumer CPUs; the Phenom II X4 940 and 920. These CPUs are the latest quad cores from AMD with bigger cache and more MHz. Does Intel finally have some worthy competition?

The Phenom II comes in two flavors (and prices):

• X4 920 – 2.8GHz – $235
  
• X4 940 – 3.0GHz – $275
  

These new chips are positioned between Intel’s Core 2 Duo and the Core i7. The initial release of the chips supports DD2 (with DDR3 coming later) and have 6MB of L3 cache accessible by all cores. The L1 and and L2 caches are 64KB L1 data, 64KB L1 instruction per core and 512KB per core respectively,

Initial performance tests show the Phenom II performs about as well as the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 for gaming and the same as an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 for CPU intensive tasks like rendering.

Read more here: AMD Phenom II X4 940 and 920 CPUs