ExtremeTech review triple core Phenom 8750

With a decent system built around it, this core of a Spider platform is truly a midrange performer. If you consider that it runs at a mere 2.4GHz compared to the 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo we tested it against, you must conclude that the extra core had, at the very least, some positive effect on the benchmark results. From the PCMark Vantage scores, it’s likely that the Intel CPU may perform better in general purpose tasks, but the differences are small enough that users may not notice much difference.