Pentium D 820 @ 3.4 vs Athlon X2 4800+ @ stock(2.4)

[smopoim86]

When i benchmarcked these two chips they came close to the same in scores, but in real life the athlon does everything about 5 times faster. What gives!

I am assuming that the huge increase in speed is because of the X2's itegrated memory controller, and the benchmark i was using was testing primerily the cpu only and not much of the ram.

 

[Markfw]

Could be it was throttling ?? Yes, the 4800 whoops it at 3.4

 

[smopoim86]

I'm on the Pendium D right now and the benchmarks show no affects of throttling. If i run a short thread it it will complete with out getting the proc too hot, and if i loop that thread and get the temps up to 70 the times stay about the same

 

[stelleg151]

Thats always how its been. Intel does well in some synthetic benchmarks, due to the impressive clockspeed, but generally the AMD's are faster in real world.

 

[StrangerGuy]

P4 are kings of Sandra but falls flat when it comes to real world apps.