http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7462810.html
"Some called it a better value. Most testers, however, said it depends on the application. The 2GHz Pentium 4 showed higher performance on tests related to 3D graphics, such as the game "Quake 3." But Athlon XP 1800+ excelled at productivity applications, such as word processing and e-mail."
Although true, "faster word processing and email" seems misworded to me. Not to mention them not even touching on any game besides Quake3 which the P4 took by 3.9fps.
"This is "not a whole big shift from what the Pentium 4/Athlon positioning has been previously," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, which published results of its tests on its site The Meter. "The 'Quake 3' results for Pentium 4 have always been much stronger, while Athlon has traditionally done better on business" applications."
The Meter eh?
http://www.themeter.com/processor/disclose1500.shtml
They used AMD760 despite the fact that the SiS735 surpassed the 760 months ago. All tests were on 98SE, take that for what you will.
"An Intel representative declined to comment directly on AMD's claims, but stated, "The Pentium 4 is the highest performance desktop processor."
It's expected that a company will defend their products, AMD does the same, but the benchmarks indicate otherwise. That is of course, for now. I have no delusions as to the Athlon always dominating, the P4 was ahead for a matter of months.
Overall the story seems to be written from the mainstream persepective, never quoting anything too technical, I guess that's C-Net's place.
And before anyone else mentions it, yes Intel owns part of Cnet but I dont think that it influences articles.
"Some called it a better value. Most testers, however, said it depends on the application. The 2GHz Pentium 4 showed higher performance on tests related to 3D graphics, such as the game "Quake 3." But Athlon XP 1800+ excelled at productivity applications, such as word processing and e-mail."
Although true, "faster word processing and email" seems misworded to me. Not to mention them not even touching on any game besides Quake3 which the P4 took by 3.9fps.
"This is "not a whole big shift from what the Pentium 4/Athlon positioning has been previously," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, which published results of its tests on its site The Meter. "The 'Quake 3' results for Pentium 4 have always been much stronger, while Athlon has traditionally done better on business" applications."
The Meter eh?
http://www.themeter.com/processor/disclose1500.shtml
They used AMD760 despite the fact that the SiS735 surpassed the 760 months ago. All tests were on 98SE, take that for what you will.
"An Intel representative declined to comment directly on AMD's claims, but stated, "The Pentium 4 is the highest performance desktop processor."
It's expected that a company will defend their products, AMD does the same, but the benchmarks indicate otherwise. That is of course, for now. I have no delusions as to the Athlon always dominating, the P4 was ahead for a matter of months.
Overall the story seems to be written from the mainstream persepective, never quoting anything too technical, I guess that's C-Net's place.
And before anyone else mentions it, yes Intel owns part of Cnet but I dont think that it influences articles.
