Intel vs. Athlon

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 9:31 am

Anyone know any sites that can give architexture difference charts for these two processor types?

ltldrgn1 · Post by **ltldrgn1** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 12:24 pm

I checked a couple of sites that I usually use, and did a search for "intel vs. amd" here are the links.

http://zdnet.search.com/search?channel= ... el+vs.+amd

http://cnet.search.com/search?timeout=3 ... el+vs.+amd

hope that you find what you are looking for.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 9:31 am

Thanks

Izgoth · Post by **Izgoth** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 1:16 pm

In one of those tests you can see that a AMD XP 1800+ (1533mhz) beats a more expensive Pentium 4 (2ghz).

P4 has almost 500 more mhz but AMD still beats it. Intel just can't compete very well. Ok the Northwood processors are pretty damn fast but AMD will soon release the Hammer processors and be nr. uno again.

Quark · Post by **Quark** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 2:13 pm

hmm...
Comparing Northwood to Hammer is not really fair.

Northwood's enemy is Thoroughbred (IIRC they are both based on a .13 micron architecture). Thoroughbred, surprisingly, was just released on the mobile platform. As far as I know, that's the first time a major desktop and laptop architecture was released for laptops first. Thoroughbred for desktops and Northwood should both be released relatively soon.

Hammer and it's semi-counterpart, IA-64 (nickname?) are both 64-bit processors (instead of the normal, x86 32-bit). IA-64 is a complete break from x86, with emulation envolved. Hammer is a combination of 32-bit and 64-bit, theoretically allowing old programs to run w/o emulation. Intel is considering a counter to Hammer (a dual-platform one), but I haven't really heard much about it. I don't really remember release dates for these two products.

Izgoth · Post by **Izgoth** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 7:07 am

Actually I think there are already Northwoods out there.