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And The Chip Champ Is...debatable
News Results of benchmark tests are in on the new Athlon XP processor, and the winner of the performance crown is.well, it's hard to say. For the most part, benchmark testers who've been running the chip applauded the Athlon XP, although an absolute...
[October 10, 2001, 10:17]
Intel, Aberdeen Attack AMD Speed Ratings
News The chip giant has funded a new report from Aberdeen, AMD's Gigahertz Equivalency: Inexperienced Buyers Accept Bad Science, which heavily criticises AMD's model-number system as confusing to consumers and as "not justifiable in the benchmark...
[March 27, 2002, 15:11]
AMD Releases Opteron Benchmarks
News The score on the SPECint benchmark, which measures how rapidly the chip processes integer calculations, is particularly interesting because server customers look at the figure when considering purchases.
[October 17, 2002, 7:31]
Intel's Core 2 Duo Delivers On Promises
News On PC World's benchmark, WorldBench, the E6700 processor outscored AMD's FX-62 processor by a substantial margin, and the gap was even wider between the FX-62 and the Core 2 Extreme. PC gamers, who have been solidly behind AMD's Athlon 64...
[July 17, 2006, 8:45]
Four Core Years... And Then?
Leader By concentrating on benchmark results, AMD and Intel risk losing sight of that. A move away from benchmark bingo would be a good start. The latest battleground is quad-core, where Intel has stitched together two dual-core chips and got in ahead of...
[September 11, 2007, 17:50]
Opteron Launches Amidst Benchmark Fanfare
News The QuarteX-64 managed 82,226 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark -- more than competing four-way servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Advanced Micro Devices released its touted Opteron...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
AMD And Intel War Over Benchmarks
News AMD dismissed the SPEC benchmark as largely irrelevant. He said that AMD had been careful in the set of benchmarks it had used in establishing the True Performance Inititative, audited by Andersen Consulting, so as not to lay itself open to charges...
[April 3, 2002, 14:07]
Athlon Beats PIII 600MHz By Nearly 30 Percent
News For many consumers in the market for a fast PC, there's more to the equation than benchmark test numbers. As we found in testing for this story, the Athlon just squeaked past the PIII on business applications, as shown by our ZD Winstone 99...
[August 9, 1999, 12:16]
Intel Ships The Pentium 4
News Intel's own benchmarks show the 1.5GHz achieved 25 percent performance when encoding a .wav file to an MP3 file in eJay's MP3 Plus benchmark. The chip reached 44 percent on the Quake III Arena Gaming benchmark, and Intel claimed it was up to 47...
[November 20, 2000, 12:23]
Pentium 4 Delay Gives AMD Top Spot
News Benchmark tests revealed this week that the 1.53GHz Athlon XP 1800+ beat the 2GHz Pentium 4 in many benchmark tests, though it loses in others. The Pentium 4 won out on the "Quake 3" benchmark, some media compression tests, and on tests involving...
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
Never Mind Dempsey, Here Are The Woodcrest Numbers
News Intel's server group hasn't really wanted to talk about performance over the last year, with AMD's Opteron chip holding an advantage on most benchmarks, as confirmed by many of the benchmark graphs posted on Tuesday.
[May 24, 2006, 10:25]
AMD Reveals Barcelona's Strengths
News Allen said he couldn't project Barcelona's performance against Penryn, since Intel hasn't published any benchmark results based on the forthcoming chip. The demo measured the performance of the chips on an imaging benchmark called POV-Ray and, as...
[May 22, 2007, 10:58]
1GHz: A New Standard
News There's no doubt that the 1GHz Athlon is the fastest desktop processor we've ever seen, as evidenced by its stellar scores on processor benchmark programs (CPUmark 99 and FPUmark 99). Our benchmark test results generally follow these trends.
[March 7, 2000, 9:51]
Dell To Produce Itanium 2 Computers
News While it scores high on benchmark tests, Itanium has not sold because of product delays and a lack of software, according to analysts and high tech executives. While Marengi declined to discuss Opteron in depth, he noted that the benchmark scores...
[November 20, 2002, 7:23]
D-Day For Intel's Pentium III
News Intel: 25 percent faster Intel says the new Pentium III chips are up to 25 percent faster then their predecessors based on the CPU Mark 32 benchmark. CPU Mark is a Ziff-Davis benchmark. Intel, which had been battling Advanced Micro Devices for the...
[October 25, 1999, 15:06]
Special: Inside The Development Of Cyrix's 6x86MX
News It's about 10-20 per cent faster than the classic 6x86 if you run a floating point benchmark. Using a floating point benchmark] is kind of like using Norton SI to say this is what Windows performance is like.
[June 6, 1997, 14:35]
AMD On The Attack In Processor Performance Row
News Benchmark standards are supposed to be objective, so it shouldn't matter who's in bed with whom. Each participating company receives one vote on the benchmark once it is developed. The move steps up AMD's efforts to ensure that its processors...
[August 30, 2002, 13:53]
Pentium 4: More Speed In The Pipeline
News Although the top chips from the two companies were fairly evenly matched in 2001, Intel began to pull away on various benchmark tests from AMD in the second half of 2002 by increasing the clock speed, measured in mega- and gigahertz, on the...
[January 13, 2003, 8:11]
Intel Northwood Fails To Take The Lead
News Not so, according to an extensive array of benchmark tests carried out by ZDNet Germany. Athlon XP far outpaced the top-of-the-range Pentium 4s on the ZD Business Winstone benchmark, which measures performance for everyday applications such as...
[January 7, 2002, 13:37]
Prescott Flunks Benchmark Tests
News Intel's new Prescott-based Pentium 4 has debuted with performance measurements mostly slightly below that of its predecessor, Northwood, and below its main competition, AMD's Athlon64, according to ZDNet benchmark tests published on Monday.
[February 2, 2004, 16:20]
