Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 22:05:54 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 22:47:33, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>Well, lets go buddy. :) My box does 1.81GHz air-cooled (SK6), 1.86GHz liquid,
>2.1 with dry ice. I'll run 1.80 on the dot vs your 2.53. Lets try and bench
>absolutely everything. Divx encoding, mp3 encoding, chess, 3dmark, quake3, etc
>etc. I'm ready. >:)
Can I make a prediction? :)
DIVX encoding: P4 wins, not by a huge margin. This result could be different
depending on the program and settings used.
MP3 encoding: If it really takes 2 minutes for that P4 to encode a 10-minute
mp3 as Slater said in one previous post, the Athlon should win
hands-down. :) But I think his number was wrong. It will be
practically a tie anyway.
Chess: Athlon wins, no contest.
3dMark: This is much more dependent on the video card than the CPU.
Quake3: For some time, the P4 has been king in Quake3 framerate, by a lot.
If it relies on sheer calculation, the Athlon should win. Despite having a
700MHz handicap in raw speed, it still has more computing muscle than that P4.
A lot of programs have a great bandwidth dependency, however, which is where the
P4 has its main strength. In applications like this, the Athlon is held back by
its much lower memory->CPU bandwidth.
For normal, everyday applications, it must be impossible to tell a real
difference between these 2 CPUs. Use a CPU at half the speed, and most of the
time you still couldn't tell a difference. The decision to buy one CPU over the
other should depend on the specific applications one uses which are more
CPU-intensive. If you want a computer only for chess programs, the Athlon is
the way to go. If you want a computer to do video editing, the P4 will probably
be faster for you.
This challenge is really rather silly, for several reasons. The machines being
compared aren't identical (ignoring the obvious CPU/motherboard difference),
it's not being done in any kind of controlled setting, and there's no guarantee
that the programs/settings being used are exactly identical. Despite this, I'm
interested to see what results you come up with.
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