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Re: [News] [SOT] Has Intel Proven That Crime Pays? (Comprehensive Benchmark)

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> [By suffocating your rival, that is, just like Microsoft does.]
> 
> Intel vs. AMD: Today's generation compared
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The fact that Intel retains the overall performance crown comes as no
> | surprise. As we said at the outset, AMD has no real answer to the Core 2
> | Extreme X6800 among its dual-core processors.
> `----
> 
> http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/cpus/index.x?pg=14
> 

cpuscorecard.com , a speed comparison site, puts the Athlon 2.8G just a tiny
bit behind Intel's 3G, doesn't seem enough to worry about to me. So small
that it suggests that an athlon 3G would be equal or better.

infohq.com has the Athlon 64 FX 2G2 at its top spot for speed even with
Intel 3G on the list. This uses desktop comparisons, a sort of real work
comparison. The Intel comes above the Athlon XPs. 

But then another site, passmark.com puts Athlon behind again in integer and
floating point maths, but ahead in MMX.

So between the two CPUs it is very difficult to come up with a definitive
'One is faster than the other'. So, a typical home PC will spent some time
playing streams from local or remote sources in which case (assuming the
same peripheral hardware) the Athlon is winning. Then a graphical screen
move or change the Intel is winning, depending on how much of that work the
graphics card is able to do for itself. But still the differences are
really very slight, so if you mixed the two areas, say online game playing,
then the two will pretty much balance out, the Intel quicker to update a
local screen but a bit slower dealing with the streams, the Athlon being
the other way round.

So the speeds do not make a good basis for comparison with these two since
they are too simmilar (only talking about the higher end desktop CPUs).

Power consumption might have been the place to seperate the two. 

But even that is very mixed ( cpuscorecard.com ). They aren't many exact
like to like speeds in the list, can only go for simmilar on most, but you
get some where Amd scores very much better than Intel, others where Intel
score very much better than Amd. So if you were designing a Laptop you may
go for the Athlon-4 1G4 over the Intel equivelant, but for a desktop tower
maybe an Intell P-M over a simmilar Athlon.

It seems a kneck for kneck race to me at the moment. It looks a bit like AMD
has lost at least some of the advantage it gained when Intel were still
holding back the 64bit for desktop machines. That's a shame really because
they were leading and had the chance to change from the company following
Intel's lead to forcing Intel to follow Amd instead.


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