It looks like OEMs are responding to the Tri-core better than Intel expected. That can explain why Intel going after AMD’s Tri core processors claiming its dual cores are actually better. Intel understands that OEMs will send a message that three cores are better than two, and this is the how majority of the market will accept it.

Intel has sent a funny little document where it claims that its Pentium E series of Dual cores performs and scores better than Tri-core. To spice it up, Intel did mention that Tri-core is not designed to be tri-core, but it’s rather a CPU with one core defective or disabled.

We did test one of these first OEM cores and it scores almost as fast as a Quad-core. You can check that review here. Once AMD cranks up the speeds of its tri-cores, we believe Intel might find itself in trouble.

Furthermore, Intel tells that in System 2007 its E2220 scores a point better than a Phenom 8600 2.3GHz Tri core. To sweeten it up Intel “Ranges are performance estimates” for Phenom 8600 and 8400, which means that Intel actually didn’t have these CPUs in hand but it still decided to send this rather questionable presentation and base its scores on estimates.

Here is one of the images.