Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 17:24:25 12/31/02
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On December 31, 2002 at 17:22:42, Rick Terry wrote: >A friend of mine who works at USA Computers seems convinced that The Pentium 4 >512 FSB outperforms the Athlon in Every Bench Mark. I didn't know enough to >argue with him, repeating only what I heard here about AMD Processors being >Superior to the Pentium in Running Chess Programs, But Why?, Why would the >Pentium Perform better then the Athlon in all other Benchmarks but Chess? Going to have to agree with Dan here -- your friend is wrong to make such a sweeping generalization. The Athlon and Pentium 4 have different strengths. It is even debatable that the Athlon outperforms the Pentium 4 in chess. Most of the benchmarks I see where the Pentium 4 leads Athlon by a wide margin are also poorly done. I find it hard to believe that an AthlonMP 1600 chip using Registered/ECC (slower) DDR SDRAM will perform above AthlonXP 2100, 2400, etc. The tests I refer to are not SMP tests, so my system is disadvantaged in almost every way. Truth is that AMD and Intel chips are always neck & neck. The major difference is that AMD doesn't charge $700 for their latest chip. -Matt
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