Re: Your Intel line looks "correct", at least I'm expecting the same - for AMD I wouldn't go that far. I think the whole Phenom line will be a bit higher priced but who knows - it will mostly depend on how strong the Penryn IPC vs. K10 really comes out. If Penryn can give around +5% overall and if K10 is on par with "old" C2D, your prices look very reasonable.
Buggi, all you have to do is look at a few of the reviews out there, which have put a 3.0GHz Athlon X2 6000+ against Intel chips approaching 3.0GHz.
I did an analysis here based on an Xbitlabs review: #msg-20725094 There is a summary on Matbe.com here: #msg-21114372
In both cases, if you compare IPC, Intel's is 25% better (or sometimes much more) with Core 2 micro-architecture. Not sure what you expect AMD to get with Phenom, but I think 25% across the board performance is asking a lot.
Penryn @ 3.33GHz is 14% higher clock speed than Kentsfield at 2.93GHz, but the performance on different apps ranges from +18% (+3.5% IPC) in one of the H.264 encoders, to +111% (+85% IPC)(sic) in an SSE-4 optimized DivX encoder. The HL2 game gets +37.3% (+20% IPC) performance and AMD favorite Cinebench benchmark gets +25.5% (+10% IPC) better. So I think your +5% IPC figure is quite conservative. I actually expect Penryn to deliver performance well beyond what AMD can deliver with Phenom.
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