Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 11:13:28 11/29/03
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On November 29, 2003 at 10:41:44, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Intel was not going to stay back just watching AMD get all the attention >http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1276979,00.asp Pretty misleading. They don't bother testing all of the applications in a specific area (such as media encoding). Take Povray, Yasrt and Realstorm for example. Those three 3d renderers are extremely fast on Athlon chips. It takes a P4 running over 4GHz just to come close to my Athlon XP at 2.5GHz. They only tested the P4 optimized programs, to lop-side the results. As for the media encoding.. they didn't bother testing the fastest encoder for Athlons either. DVD2AVI is the fastest by far. When I tested a P4-2.53 @ 3.5GHz it was a good 30% slower than the Athlon XP 2.5GHz I have when it was using its best encoder vs my Athlon running DVD2AVI. Also, if anyone has done any encoding.. you'll know this is fast: http://www.newageoc.com/pics2/athlon-owns-dvds.jpg As for the FutureMark benchmarks.. they're just a bunch of greedy bastards who optimize for the company that gives them the most money. The PcMark test is biased towards Intel cpus, and now 3DMark2003 is biased towards ATI Radeon cards. If you take a Pentium 2 400MHz and put in an ATI Radeon 9800 in it and run the benchmark it will score 2-3x higher than a P4-3.2GHz with an Nvidia Geforce4. Now, go play any game or other application and you'll see the Pentium 2 400MHz would get killed *EVERY* time. Way to go Futuremark!
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