On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 11:29 -0500, Chris Abbott wrote: > Found these articles on the net. Of course some of the benchmarks aren't > that reliable, due to the fact of how software is compiled, compile > flags in Gentoo, and options passed to that program when ran. > > AMD 64-bit vs. Intel 64-bit > http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/1747228&mode=thread > > AMD 64-bit Dual Core Benchmarks > http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1625246 > > I couldn't find any information on the duo on linuxhardware.org, but I > may not have looked deep enough. Just remember, like sound > equipment(especially speakers), compare before buying. Pentium-4 EE's are so old school. While these benchmarks are not done on Linux, this is the current state of ye olde AMD vs Intel competition: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/ http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=832&cid=1 http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2/index.x?pg=1 The bottom line: Core 2 Duo beats anything AMD can offer. Even the more cheaper not top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo processors kill the fastest AMD processors in most cases. Oh, and the AMD processors use almost twice the energy of a Core 2 Duo. Though. All of this will change eventually, of course. :) Sampo
