amd and intel??

[nboy22]

I've heard rumors about the AMD processors being faster than the Intel boards, is this true???

If I was to get a 1.8 GHZ pentium processor would it be faster, or slower than a athlon XP 2000
1.67 GHZ???

 

[Jeff7]

Generally, the XP 2000 would perform better than a P4 up to about 2.2GHz or so (Educated guess as to that exact speed). XP's excel at raw number crunching power; the P4's rely mainly on SSE2 enabled programs to really fly - and not a whole lot of programs have that.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Generally, the XP 2000 would perform better than a P4 up to about 2.2GHz or so (Educated guess as to that exact speed). XP's excel at raw number crunching power; the P4's rely mainly on SSE2 enabled programs to really fly - and not a whole lot of programs have that.

Don't forget very high clockspeeds. The Athlon XP beats the P4 clock for clock, and then some, but the P4 does have high clockspeed going for it. You just have to get very, very high speeds to have an advantage.

 

[Duvie]

Jeff7 is wrong about p4 needs sse2 enabled programs to really fly...The p4 flies in many apps now that have no optimization for sse2....


He is right about general comparison...2000+ = or slightly less then 2.2ghz p4a...in many apps not just sse2 ones....


The athlon performs better clock for clock due to its higher ipc and stronger fpu...HOwever where intel sacrificed this with a different architecture that has a longer pipeline it gains the ability to ramp much faster...at one time about 1-1/2 years ago amd had a 1.2ghz and Itel had a 1.5ghz p4...only 300mhz separation...NOw that has grown from 1.8ghz (2200+) is amd's top and 2.53ghz is Intels....This is just 2 different architectures that can't be compared directly...The main fact is what is faster in the real world plain and simple. INtel is supposed to have a 2.8ghz out at end of august and maybe amd will have the next t-bred installation out at 2300+...They will fall further behind as they jump in 66mhz jumps and intel jumps in 133mhz jumps or in this case 266mhz....

The 2200+ T-BRED loses in majority of apps to 2.4B...

IN my opinion a 1.8a northwood would be slower then a 2000+xp...However that p4 is likley very easily oc'd to 2.4ghz and then will be better then amd's flagship processor...Ocing upper xp's and t-breds are a crap shoot so they likely even oc'd won't beat the best the 1.8a could do....