And here’s the kicker: Most salesman at Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA don’t know how to sell PR ratings. AMD released 2400+ and 2600+ T-breds at higher clock speeds, but the 2500+ model number is distinctive. Most likely, NO. The size and resources of Intel give it a signficant advantage in that they can afford to have a dedicated development fab, or perhaps dedicate a significant percentage of a fab’s wafer starts to development work.The T-bred 2800+ turns in the fastest overall score, just edging out the Barton 3000+.
It will be more like 6 or 7 months from now rather than just a few.
Athlon XP 1500+ 1.33GHz As you can see, the new Athlon XP 3000+ actually carries a lower clock speed than the previous flagship 2800+ (2.167GHz vs. 2.25GHz). Too bad AMD can’t bang out any higher clocks yet.2600+ | Thoroughbred | 2083 | 1.65 | 62.0 | 68.3 | 85I wouldn’t say that. may buy them in ignorance just because ‘They’re the fastest”, I would never PERSONALLY recommend them to anyone who wasn’t a ‘desktop speed at ALL costs’ type lemming.The test systems’ Windows desktops were set at 1024×768 in 32-bit color at an 85Hz screen refresh rate. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard them mis-explain this simple thing, usually to AMD’s disadvantage. Provided the Athlon64 live up to it’s billing.But in the world of termal solutions being outstripted by termal output, Intel is facing their own problems. The real reason for the delay is the simple fact that AMD is having trouble ramping up the frequencies on the SOI process. I’ll bet the street price drops a bit.Of particular interest is the growing difference between what the P4 and the Athlon are each good at. Until then, it’s yawnville for moi.interesting.
AMD fanboys aside, noone expected more than about 5% out of this, and thats what we got.My advice to you as far as upgrading is concerned is, if you can, to wait until April. In order to aid in this mission, AMD has outfitted the newest incarnation of the Athlon XP, code-named Barton, with twice the level 2 cache of previous models—up from 256K to 512K.
This Cinema 4D application test shows a little more balanced picture than Kribibench.
You can’t make a 3 GHz Athlon (using non-exotic cooling and a .13 micron process), so claiming that the higher IPC of the Athlon makes it inherrently superior seems like a fundamentally flawed argument.
Model Number Frequency L2-Cache FSB Multiplier Voltage TDP [q]That’s why the P4 is a better product than the Athlon. From this review and that on Toms site, it appears that the P4 3.06 is the fastest chip around but only when paired with the RDRAM.
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