AMD overtakes Intel
p2pnet.net News:- With AMD challenging Intel, a new bench-test score not only confirms it has something to worry about, but also proves AMD’s processors, “offer better performance than the competition’s – and better value for money too”.
Both the test and the quote are in today’s PC Advisor.
The 2.6GHz Athlon 64 FX-55’s core clockspeed is 1GHz slower than Intel’s 3.6GHz Pentium 4, the report points out, but it goes on to say although it couldn’t do a like-for-like comparison using the same hardware, “the fastest WorldBench score we’ve ever wrung from a Pentium 4, in a system with almost exactly the same basic specifications, was 134.
“In contrast, the Athlon 64 FX55 is the first processor ever to break the 150 barrier in our WorldBench tests.
“Its 152 point score is testament to AMD’s ability to crank fantastic performance from a processor that, on paper at least, should be 30 percent slower. The FX55 also chewed up video encoding in no time at all. Visually, we managed to get the highest frame rates ever on our Quake 3 test, running in excess of 134 frames per second.”
This kind of competition benefits not only the company, but also the customer.
Intel will be driven hard to maintain its position as Chipzilla and other companies will try to catch up, and overtake, both Intel and AMD.
It’s called competition and the ultimate beneficiary is the customer.
It’s a real shame no such thing yet exists in the world of music where the members of the Big Four record cartel crush, or try to crush, anything and everything – ‘consumers’ included – which looks even remotely likely to threaten their control of the corporate music business.
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See:-
better performance - Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX55, PC Advisor, October 22, 2004
