Athlon XP vs Pentium IV - View The Benchmarks!!!

[majagua]

Athlon XP 2100+ Kicks ass in many of the benchmarks, even though it is running at only 1.73 GHZ and uses DDR. It even beats the Pentium IV 2.2 GHZ with RIMM!!!!

Look at the results

http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q1/athlonxp-2100/index.x?pg=1

[int 21h]

I hate to rain on your AMD FanBoy parade, but I'll raise a few points and leave you on your way.

Quoting from the article:

In our gaming tests, the Athlon XP and Pentium 4 were very evenly matched. But for strictly memory-limited applications, there's no denying the P4's prowess. In our test suite, the Sphinx and ScienceMark Primordia tests are the best examples of memory bandwidth-limited apps. The P4 cleaned up in those tests, regardless of RAM type. Perhaps it's the 400MHz bus or perhaps it's the P4's memory prefetch and SSE streaming abilities. Whatever it is, the Pentium 4 makes much better use of the memory bandwidth available to it, and it shows.

Hmm, could this use of memory bandwidth be useful in an application such as CCE where you're tossing about MBs of data in and out of cache and RAM?

Secondly, its well established that the XP will clean up with x86 instructions, and that was the entire point of the change with the marketing stuff. (i.e. XP 2100+ instead of XX mhz.) Its much like testing apples against oranges when you're testing a processor built to execute plain x86 against a processor built to execute SSE2.

Of course you've probably already heard this all before, and I'm sure there will be 500 replies to this thread talking about the evil Intel marketing, their lack of innovation, their desire to lock you into a monopoly with Rambus, and how much AMD rules... that's how all these threads go.

[Swede]

Now, I don't like to be the one striking around here but this is a bit too much. Crossposting, the exact same post...
I also think that we've had enough of these a vs. b threads. If you have some hands-on testing of different setups concering video/audio-compression you're more than welcome to post your findings but links to hypothetical non-video related test... Pls. don't.

[diji1]

Swede : I also think that we've had enough of these a vs. b threads.

amen to that ...

[majagua]

Excuse me, friend, but your words are a bit harsh. I know several of the people that work at www.tech-report.com and they do these benchmarks seriously and objectively.

I posted this information based on the fact that it's a reliable site, not for opening a vs discussion again. In fact, if you had read my earlier post of AMD vs INTEL, you would assume that I would not start a thread talking about the same topic, would I? It goes against forum policy, isn't that right?

Thanks again.

[shadowrunner]

good ole Swede... sticking his foot in his mouth again j/k

here is a good link to compare.... and I do mean good link Swede ;)

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm




Originally posted by Swede
Now, I don't like to be the one striking around here but this is a bit too much. Crossposting, the exact same post...
I also think that we've had enough of these a vs. b threads. If you have some hands-on testing of different setups concering video/audio-compression you're more than welcome to post your findings but links to hypothetical non-video related test... Pls. don't.

[Swede]

Ok, NeverLift. I warned you more than once!
This time you posted a *completely* offtopic link. Mac vs. PC in a thread named Athlon XP vs Pentium IV.

and sticking his foot in his mouth again ???

[shadowrunner]

Why must everyone call me Lift?
Just cause I play SR and took the nick....

And if you bothered to read that article you would see how wrong you are.
The article has a Dual Mac, Dual AthlonXP and a P4 and the tests that where run where very good tests and related to video encoding. Next time take a few seconds to actually read and look over the article before posting please.
Why do the mods at this forum have to power trip and act this way?
You dont make this forum the users do ;)
You seem to take pleasure in running people off.
Seems every where you look you see a post from a n00bie and then you see 2-5 big heads posting flaming are putting them down then along comes a mod to add to it.... such a shame.
Just glad there are better forums out there. ;)

[Swede]

Why must everyone call me Lift? Because you two are the same guy, it's that simple.And if you bothered to read that article you would see how wrong you are. Nowhere do they mention DivX, Xvid, CCE, TMPG or any of the DVD-tools this forum is about.. If you use Illustrator of Photoshop then you're definitely in the wrong forum.
Next time take a few seconds to actually read and look over the article before posting please. I did. Just glad there are better forums out there Well, stay there then, I won't miss you.

[Doom9]

In accordance with forum rule12 appendix 2 (Do not ask "what's best" because this question cannot be answered objectively. Each and everyone has their own view about what's best in a certain area. The best is what works best for you!

it's time to end this and stop any further amd vs intel discussions as they tend to degrade into flamewars.