CPU comparison

[satimis]

Hi folks,

AMD vs Intel

I have been searching information on performance comparison of 64 bit CPUs from the captioned makers. Some folks hold opinion that AMD performs better than Intel. Others perfer Intel. I'm targeting on comparing following CUPs of same clock speed.

AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 single core
vs
Intel P4 socket 775


AMD Athlon 64 X2 socket 939 dual core
vs
Intel P4D socket 775 dual core

Could you please shed me some light, their advantage and disadvantage. Does AMD support DDR2? TIA

B.R.
satimis

 

[Markfw]

You can't compare at the same clock speed. Read the benchmarks on Anandtech.com Right now AMD owns in virtually every area. The current Intel CPU's also run hot and take a lot of power. This will change when Conroe comes out.

 

[Fallengod]

Yeah, lets not get into this anyways heh.

 

[pcoffman]

Originally posted by: satimis
AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 single core
vs
Intel P4 socket 775


AMD Athlon 64 X2 socket 939 dual core
vs
Intel P4D socket 775 dual core

Could you please shed me some light, their advantage and disadvantage

Hi,

I would stay away from single-core and go with dual-core. Dual-core is the future, and more and more applications are being written to take advantage of it, including games.

AMD shows a performance advantage on most benchmarks, so if performance is what you care about, then ...

What else might you care about besides performance? Well, cost, for one thing. Intel CPUs tend to be priced accordingly.

If you can wait a few months, Intel is supposed to have a CPU that kicks @ss. Codename Conroe. It's a no-brainer for most people to wait.

Does AMD support DDR2?

AMD does not currently support DDR2 but should very soon. The new socket is called AM2, I believe. Be forewarned, however, the new socket is not showing alot of improvement over the old socket, on preliminary benchmark data. It's sort of like when Intel went to DDR2, there wasn't alot of improvement over DDR. So maybe history is repeating itself.