Question about Cpu's

Discussion in 'Technology' started by Fah Que, Aug 12, 2003.

  1. Fah Que

    Fah Que Member

    Sep 29, 2000
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    #1 Fah Que, Aug 12, 2003
    What's faster? AMD XP3200+ or the fastest Intel P4? What about AMD vs Intel Xeon?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Eggy

    Eggy New Member

    May 28, 1999
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    #2 Eggy, Aug 13, 2003
    depends actually. Are you gonna overclock the AMD
     
  3. Fah Que

    Fah Que Member

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    #3 Fah Que, Aug 14, 2003
    Probably not.
     
  4. Foosinho

    Foosinho New Member

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    #4 Foosinho, Aug 14, 2003
    CPU speed is overrated, IMO. Lots of marketing hype.

    What is more important than clock speed is the processor's cache size.
     
  5. Fah Que

    Fah Que Member

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    #5 Fah Que, Aug 14, 2003
    If I am a believer of clock speed, I wouldn't have asked in the first place. Afterall fastest P4 runs over 3G and fastest XP runs 2.15G not taking overclocking into consideration.

    According to AMD website, XP3200+ runs faster than fastest P4 in all benchmark tests. The only applications comes close is multimedia. That doesn't surprise me because old clumsy CISC architecture allows Intel to put in special multimedia instruction sets. I am going trust it because the publication is from a 3rd party. I have noticed Intel website does not have a single white paper on performance comparisons against rival processors while AMD website is full of them. To me that means Intel is not proud of their processor performance and therefore admit the defeat.
     

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