Sandra 2002 and AMD chips

[Corporate Thug]

why does AMD get killed so badly in sandra?

 

[bgeh]

in the memory bandwidth benchmark, yes
that's because the P4's FSB is much larger than the AMD's one........

 

[BG4533]

Is memor what you were reffering to Shady06? MHz per MHz the Athlon wins everywhere else except memory. And even in memory it isnt much.

 

[Corporate Thug]

yeah, i was talking about the memory.

 

[Jeff7181]

The fastest Athlon XP uses a 200 Mhz bus that's double data rate, so it's 400 Mhz effectively. Intel's fastest is also a 200 Mhz bus, but it's quad data rate, so it's 800 Mhz effective. Theoretically, and in a perfect world, the 800 Mhz FSB P4's should have twice the memory bandwidth as an Athlon XP system... but alas, we do not live in a perfect world, and theoretical specifications aren't always indicative of real world performance.