Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:00:06 01/01/03
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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? The nontechnical explanation I use for family: Intel has a higher speed, AMD handles curves better. When a program is basicly a straight line (fe encoding ) Intel wins big. For a program with extremely much curves like a chessprogram, AMD is best. (Add in technical stuff freely, as much as the listener can handle) Tony
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