Author: John Rice
Date: 18:11:10 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? That's an easy one, FPU's (floating-point unit). AMD CPU'S are much better at dealing with integer mathematics. Compare the Sandra FPU benchmark results between a P4 and the Athlon XP and you will see what I mean. JR
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