-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Grant wrote: | I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating | AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much | faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys | think? | | - Grant
Well, as others have pointed out, the speed you experience, as an end consumer has to do with every other component in your computer, in addition to the CPU. For example, the bus speed of the mainboard, the chipset, the size, speed and type of hard drives you have, and of course, the video hardware (including the interfaces to the mainboard. Lest I forget, it also depends a lot on the amount and speed of the RAM that you have in your system. As for the performance tests, they are not generally a very good measure of how well a processor will perform in the real world. AMD and Intel have been in competition for the #1 spot since AMD was formed, and for a long time AMD was ahead of Intel on a number of factors (performance and cost being two). Give it some time, and you'll see a turn around, IMHO. I can't be certain, since I haven't been keeping up with industry news, as I should, but I believe that AMD has always had the better engineers. Regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFH5hQGUx1jS/ORyCsRCkvpAKCLzX4d++WW+zW0tmeFkaD5OGzlFQCeI/Vq wzMuNgCY1AekTiok5d/44V0= =Xs2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
