Author: Slater Wold
Date: 07:46:19 05/07/02
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On May 07, 2002 at 01:05:54, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. I agree 100%. >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. Again, agree 100%. >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. It's not silly at all. We are comparing one CPU makers "flagship" to another. The software will be EXACTLY the same. I guarantee that.
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