Overall Which Is Better? Athlon 64 4000+ OR Pentium D 805?

[zeanimal2001]

Hey I was wondering which is overall better. An A64 4000+ San Diego or Pentium D 805? From what i can tell on tomshardware the Pentium D 805 seems overall more powerful in everything except encoding videos. What do you thing?

Thanks,Matt

 

[SergeC]

Not quite sure, frankly - but I'd look elsewhere for actually objective benchmarks. TH is notorious for favoring Intel.

 

[myocardia]

You mean that toms(Intel)hardware said that the slowest Pentium D is faster than the fastest single-core A64? Unless you happen to be using one of the rare, and fairly expensive, applications that will use both of the P-D's cores, then the 4000 is ~50% faster at anything you can do with a computer.

I'm not saying that it's a better deal, since it costs slightly more, and doesn't give you the second core. But, whether overclocked or not, the A64 4000 owns the Pentium 805. As a matter of fact, so does my Skt. 754 3700.

 

[stevty2889]

It depends a lot on what you are doing. If you are using applications that take advantage of dual cores, the 805 might be a little faster. For non-smp aware programs(which most are), the 4000+ would be faster by a decent amount.

 

[Captante]

If your planning on gaming, the 4000+ is the way to go... as has been mentioned already though, if you plan on using applications to will run on both cores, the 805 might be slightly faster the the single core A64 if you run it at stock 2.6ghz... if you overclock the 805 it'll be considerably faster, although you'll need some serious cooling to make it work well for you.

frankly the best choice IMO if you want dual-core is a 3800+ X2.

 

[Stumps]

A64 4000+ would pwn a stock 805D in most applications.

 

[akshayt]

From what I have heard, not sure though, that FEAR ran crap on Intel Celeron class even at 4GHz and isn't this D805 that celeron equivalent.

 

[Conky]

Why mess about with a Pentium D 805 and just get an Intel E6300 instead which will make both look like special Olympic entrants in comparsion(no offense to actual special olympic participants).

The difference between cheap dual core and state of the art dual core is only a few bucks.