>The reason for my inquiry is because in the mags Intel always fares much
better
>in the bench tests, while AMD users tell a somewhat different story. Now
why is
>that?
Intel has always had a better floating-point unit (FPU) built into their
processors which translates into better performance for FPU-intensive
applications (games and graphics). AMD has traditionally had the weaker FPU
in comparison and usually lags behind Intel. This doesn't mean that AMD
makes bad processors, they are very reliable work horses and significantly
price less than Intel processors. If your major applications are very
FPU-intensive, getting an Intel processor will make sense for now. Things
will get more interesting when AMD K7 comes out since reported benchmarks
suggest that the K7 FPU will finally kick Intel FPU where it hurts the most
and Intel will have to do some catching up.
Christopher Reimer
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