AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 (939) VS Intel Pentium 4 3.6GHz (775)

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 19th, 2004, 4:54 am

Well, Intel did improve, but only a little. Instead of winning 1/10, Intel won 5/20 with the 3.6GHz CPU. The chipsets do look nice, but AMD is still in the lead. Nice try Intel.

More here.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 19th, 2004, 3:00 pm

You are comparing a 32-bit processor with a 64-bit processor.. What are you talking about

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 19th, 2004, 3:05 pm

Uh, they are not using 64-Bit in those tests.
And 64-Bit does not improve performance.

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 19th, 2004, 3:27 pm

It will improve performance. When we aren't having to use beta drivers on a unfinished OS. (Not counting Linux)

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 19th, 2004, 3:31 pm

Well, I am talking about what we have now. The tests could have not utilized 64-Bit quality.

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 19th, 2004, 3:35 pm

Aggressor Prime wrote:Well, I am talking about what we have now. The tests could have not utilized 64-Bit quality.

This is because of drivers. Once we can get good drivers coming for 64 bit XP It should be quite nice and the Athlon should really scream.

Driver support is why i think Microsoft hasn't released WinXP 64 yet.