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Intel vs. AMD: Best bang for buck, at the moment
OK, I am totally ****ing FED UP with all these morons insisting that AMD is
faster and cheaper than Intel, PERIOD. I am a HUGE AMD fan. So it's incredibly ironic that I should feel compelled to defend Intel against repetitive, undeserved LIES posted on this ng and others about how AMD chips are both faster AND cheaper than Intel chips. At any particular point in time, that might be true, but it hasn't been true for quite a while, and it isn't true NOW. For anyone who doesn't have their head up their ass, or an axe to grind, and wants to know the plain, simple truth, here it is: Stop the nonsense. Compare chips similar in price and look at the benchmarks. AMD processors outperform comparably priced Intel processors for gaming, business applications, mathematical calculations, and many other types of applications. OK, according to pricewatch, same price range at the moment would be: P4 3.2 Prescott vs. Athlon64 3200+ or P4 3.4 Prescott vs. Athlon64 3400+ Beyond that range, you can pay up to several hundred dollars for either an Intel or AMD chip, but hardly anybody gives a damn about those chips, as hardly anybody spends as much on a processor as they do on the entire rest of their system combined. So the P4 3.2/3.4 and Athlon64 3200/3400 would be the best indicators of who has the best bang for buck, at the moment. Gaming: OpenGL: The Intel chips are much faster Gaming: DX8: The AMD chips are faster, no doubt about it Gaming: DX9: It's virtually a tie, as the AMD chips are two to three TENTHS of a percentage point faster than Intel. So on the gaming benchmarks, that's one win for Intel, one win for AMD and one tie. GAMING OVERALL: TIED Business Applications: Office Applications: Intel blows AMD away Business Applications: Internet Content Creation: Intel blows AMD away Business Applications: Overall: Intel blows AMD away Video Encoding: This one is so lopsided, AMD should have thrown in the towel before entering the ring. Intel wins by a landslide. Audio Encoding: Again, Intel wins by a landslide Synthetic Benchmarks: (PC Mark 2004): Here, Intel blows AMD away on both *CPU* and memory benchmarks Actually, I'm glad you called me out on this issue. I was previously under the impression that AMD and Intel were pretty well matched. But on reviewing the benchmarks again, I'd have to conclude that AMD is only a good idea if you plan to do nothing but DX8 gaming with your computer. Otherwise, you are wasting your money buying an AMD chip. Again, even at the same price for CPU, an Intel system can be cheaper to build, as the P4 boards are more mature at this point, and thus there are better bargains to be found. Considering that an Intel system will likely be cheaper to build and WILL perform better on all benchmarks except DX8, it's kind of a no-brainer as to which chip to build with, at the moment. Intel is better than AMD, at the moment. The only way AMD could change that would be to drop their prices by 30% or better. -Dave 9/20/04 http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040322/index.html Yeah, I know you are going to blast Tom's Hardware. It's funny that their benchmarks agree with tests run by all the other hardware guide web sites, though . . . including anandtech. |
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