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Originally Posted by "Short Hand":312b9
AMD "was" at one time, the big dog over intel performance wise, but recently instead of wasting the funds and efforts to keep pumping out the fastest home use CPU
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Nice try. GG, though.
Intel has always been ahead of AMD. It took them months longer than Intel to release a chip past the 2.0ghz mark. Itaniums have been out longer than the AMD64 AND outperform the AMD64. Like I said, Intel is just not releasing the chip until they have software to support it, UNLIKE Athlon. Athlon is making a desperate grab at trying to gain in the market. Intel is pummeling them, considering that Intel already has chips in pre-market testing that exceed 5.0ghz.[/quote:312b9]
before the 2ghz mark.'
amd reached the 1ghz mark first. they were dominate for about 1 year until intel released the 2ghz chip. But even then almost ALL gaming magazines still preferred AMD for their top systems. Look at the january 2002 issue o f pc gamer if you need proof. I still prefer AMD over intel even though both are great. consider this. i can pick up "2" 2500+ barton cored athlons for 180 or I can spend 177 on "1" 2.4 p4 system. Now this is where the bang for the buck part comes in. If AMD offers these types of prices and most buisness's are building dual cpu servers then who do you think wins it out ? Now consider the home market. Most clients don't want a a 3ghz cpu they just want a computer to get there shit done, like email etc. Even though AMD is still not targetting the bleeding edge speed market of gamers they still hand out some pretty serious power like the 3200+ barton. Again I end this they both are great , but just because they are not targetting in the same places doesn't mean their worse. Itaniums stilll have no i repeat no formal benchmark scores by non funded intel organizations liek the hardocp.com. Remember all the fake scores and boasts put out by Nvidia for the 5800 ? This is the exact same thing. While on the other hand AMD A64 has been tested by non AMD such organizations so what we see from it is "real" . Also the Itanium is no wear near in the near future for release. while the Athlon 64 is less then a month away. sep23rd official. Both are great but AMD is just smarter. Done my rant.