I should have indicated in my earlier post that magazines which do side-by-side hardware testing are saying that the AMD Athlon 64 is indeed faster than the Pentium 4; for example look in the January issue of Maximum PC magazine. they have a followup test supplementing an earlier review of Athlon vs. Pentium systems. Their testing results speak better than my faltering around with words. Tom's Hardware Guide has also compared Socket 939 Athlon systems to the latest that Intel has; I can't remember THG's exact judgement but it was overall more favorable to the Athlon systems.
Well, that's not an interesting or relevant comparison. A better comparison would be the same test run with a 32-bit application and a 64-bit version of the same application on the same Athlon system.
Comparisons to other chips are irrelevant. That's different hardware. -- http://www.velocityvector.com/ | http://www.indie-games.com/ http://www.classic-games.com/ | http://glmiller.blogspot.com/ "If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'" -- Frank Abagnale, Jr.
