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AMD vs P4
I'm thinking about buying an AMD 3500 (2.2ghz). I know that AMD's chips
rate, when compared to P4, cross over to higher ghz on the P4. What P4 coiuld this chip be compared to in terms of performance, speed, et all? TIA! |
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0600, Antoine wrote:
I'm thinking about buying an AMD 3500 (2.2ghz). I know that AMD's chips rate, when compared to P4, cross over to higher ghz on the P4. What P4 coiuld this chip be compared to in terms of performance, speed, et all? Look through the benchmarks here. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2275&p=1 -- Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB) http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0600, Antoine wrote:
I'm thinking about buying an AMD 3500 (2.2ghz). I know that AMD's chips rate, when compared to P4, cross over to higher ghz on the P4. What P4 coiuld this chip be compared to in terms of performance, speed, et all? TIA! Depends on what you are using it for. I've benchmarked my 3400+ laptop against my dual 2.66GHz Xeon server doing Verilog simulations and FPGA place and routes. The 3400+ is almost twice as fast as one of the Xeon processors, i.e. it's equivalent to a 5.2GHz Xeon if such a thing existed. The P4 architecture does much better on games and multimedia applications then it does on conventional computing tasks which is why it's still competetive with the Athlon 64 for Windows games (which is what the review sites all use for their benchmarks). For most Linux use the Athlon 64 blows the doors off of the P4. |
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"General" == General Schvantzkoph writes:
General On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0600, Antoine wrote: I'm thinking about buying an AMD 3500 (2.2ghz). I know that AMD's chips rate, when compared to P4, cross over to higher ghz on the P4. What P4 coiuld this chip be compared to in terms of performance, speed, et all? TIA! General Depends on what you are using it for. I've benchmarked my General 3400+ laptop against my dual 2.66GHz Xeon server doing General Verilog simulations and FPGA place and routes. The 3400+ is General almost twice as fast as one of the Xeon processors, i.e. General it's equivalent to a 5.2GHz Xeon if such a thing existed. General The P4 architecture does much better on games and multimedia General applications then it does on conventional computing tasks General which is why it's still competetive with the Athlon 64 for General Windows games (which is what the review sites all use for General their benchmarks). For most Linux use the Athlon 64 blows General the doors off of the P4. Good points. Another interesting data point is the P4 Prescott runs at higher operating temperatures than the old P4's. This is another concern also. If your only option is a P4 prescott I would recommend the AMD because it runs cooler. However, for all practical purposes (can folks really be practical) most users will never notice the difference in these artifical benchmarks. This is for benchmarking. Some of these differences are less than 10%, and I really wonder if a user can notice such a small difference. If you are running Linux then the AMD is the best option. Good luck, Alan |
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"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message news | On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:12:23 -0600, Antoine wrote: | | I'm thinking about buying an AMD 3500 (2.2ghz). I know that AMD's chips | rate, when compared to P4, cross over to higher ghz on the P4. What P4 | coiuld this chip be compared to in terms of performance, speed, et all? | | TIA! | | Depends on what you are using it for. I've benchmarked my 3400+ | laptop against my dual 2.66GHz Xeon server doing Verilog simulations and | FPGA place and routes. The 3400+ is almost twice as fast as one of the | Xeon processors, i.e. it's equivalent to a 5.2GHz Xeon if such a thing | existed. The P4 architecture does much better on games and multimedia | applications then it does on conventional computing tasks which is why | it's still competetive with the Athlon 64 for Windows games (which is what | the review sites all use for their benchmarks). For most Linux use the | Athlon 64 blows the doors off of the P4. | The P4 does NOT do better on games and multimedia applications in general. It does typically do better on encoding though. Here is one of tons of exaples to support this: http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2275 |
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