processor

[borginspace]

i dont know if people have asked this before but i would like to know.
has any one compared a p4 processor with an amd athlon xp processor?
which one is better?
and why is it better?

 

[borginspace]

oh and if some one knows of a place where i could see the comparisons that would be great, and also could you suggest which processor is better and why.
thanx to anyone and everyone who responds.
borginspace

 

[Kipper]

Check the main site - there was an article a while back comparing XPs and P4s. In most of the tests, as far as I recall, the XP performed equally well or beat the pants off of a higher-speed P4...but see and read for yourself.
article linky

 

[Duvie]

I will give you a bit of an update...

1900+xp which is actually 1.6ghz beats p4 2.0ghz in most of all of the benchmarks
1800+xp which is actually 1.533ghz beats the p4 2.0ghz in majority of benchmarks
1700+xp which is actually 1.466ghz is about even with p4 2.0ghz
1.4ghz tbird is about equal with 1.8ghz p4

IMO, the athlon is using the number you see (ie 1900+ xp) as a way to compete with the marketing scam intel is trying to push on the consumers. They have highest clock speeds but amount of instructions done in clock cycle is the lowest. They lack any real fpu power like amd and are counting on sse2 codings to be done by software companies to make up for that shortcoming...1 year gone and most are still waiting to see this realization of speed.

check out these sites...

www.anandtech.com
www.tomshardware.com
www.techreport.com

They will all proclaim xp "is current" champ...

What is better for you may be in the programs you run so pay attention to that and the percentage difference in some of the test as the difference may be not even noticeable.

 

[Dually]

Get a AthlonXP, only better cpu is a P4 Xeon.