Processor launches are a funny thing. There’s a whole lot of hoopla over the high end chips with all manner of benchmarks and quotes on how their latest product will make things run faster, cooler, and improve your Crysis framerate all at a low low price. That is of course if your chip is even noticed at all.

AMD launched their “Suzuka” (codename) based quad-core Opterons at around the same time they released their “Istanbul” six-core CPU…you can guess which one got the bulk of the press. The good news is that their latest chip does provide a performance boost while requiring less power to operate.

Here’s hoping they’ll announce that they’ve launched a different chip with some valid merits on a different day in the future.

Source: AMD