Dual Core AMD's, how good?

[MoToX20]

Yousuf Khan Wrote: MoToX20 wrote:- Get right to it, I now have a P4 3.2 and am thinking of going to the other side, AMD 64 X2 3800+, or possibly the 4200+. Will the AMD be the equivilent or better to the P4? I do alot of multi-tasking, as well as gaming. I've tried looking into the AMD's but only found limited information, could someone point me in the right direction to self-educate?- That's hard to believe that you couldn't find at least one ton of information about X2, if not several tons. - I'm concerned mainly that it will run at the same level as the P4, don't want to lose any performance in gaming and when single tasking(lol).- I think both single-tasking and multi-tasking wise, even the lowest X2 will wipe the plate of the P4-3.2. Yousuf Khan

I was speaking more of a direct comparison of AMD to Intel, like a
3800
+ being equivilent to a P4 XX.

Thanks for the input guys.


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[Tony Hill]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:46:15 +0100, MoToX20
<MoToX20.1vbx7p@news.computerbanter.com> wrote:I was speaking more of a direct comparison of AMD to Intel, like a3800+ being equivilent to a P4 XX.Thanks for the input guys.

As a rough comparison, I would say that the AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ will
perform similarly to an Intel P4 840. There are some applications
that will be faster on one chip while other applications will be
faster on the other, but performance-wise they would tend to be the
closest match.

Here are a handful of reviews that include some competitive
comparisons:

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q3/athlon64-x2-3800/index.x?pg=1

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1843634,00.asp

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2484

http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?page=6&articleid=710&cid=1


As you can see, the exact scores will vary somewhat from test to test,
but it's pretty clear that AMD's lowest-end dual core X2 chip can
battle it out pretty effectively with the very top-end of Intel's
dual-core lineup.

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