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The Phenom II X4 940 at stock speeds does pretty well here:

• beats the Phenom X4 9950 clocked at 3GHz by 4.5%
• beats the stock Phenom X4 9950 by 18%

It is however beaten by the other Intel chips:

• QX9770 beats it by 24%
• Core i7 920 beats it by 16%

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The Intel processors are also better at MPEG2 ecoding than the Phenom's. The stock Phenom II X4 940:

• beats the stock Phenom X4 9950 by 9.7%
• loses to the Core 2 Quad QX9770 by 33%
• loses to the Core i7 920 by 31%