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Intel Ships The Pentium 4
News In the SPEC [integer performance] numbers, I think Pentium 4 beats Athlon, and it has a slight edge on the media [benchmarks]," said Kevin Krewell, senior analyst with Micro Design Resources. Performance benchmarks put the Pentium 4 well ahead of...
[November 20, 2000, 12:23]
AMD And Intel War Over Benchmarks
News The Intel benchmarks compare a Pentium 4 "Northwood" core with Rambus memory, for example, while the AMD core uses DDR (double data rate) DRAM, which does not allow the same bandwidth for memory-intensive applications such as video rendering, but...
[April 3, 2002, 14:07]
Intel's Roadmap Quickly Reworked
News Additionally, the dual-core chips may not score well on benchmarks. It was a billion-dollar effort," he said, adding "AMD will totally kill them on benchmarks" in 2005. The benefits of increasing clock frequency are beginning to be offset by the...
[May 10, 2004, 9:15]
IBM E326m Performance For HPC
White Papers The analysis includes memory bandwidth and latency, floating-point vector performance, performance of the SPEC CPU2000 speed and rate benchmarks, and both uni- and bidirectional traffic over the PCI-Express I/O slot using a high-speed InfiniBand...
[April 26, 2007, 1:00]
Via Takes Wraps Off 'Joshua' Chip
News The PR rating is derived from the chip's performance in a series of application benchmarks, rather than actual clock speed, and is touted by proponents as offering the equivalent of the true Intel clock speed.
[February 22, 2000, 16:33]
AMD's Newest Chip Attempts To Raise The Bar
News Based on previous tests, most testers predict benchmarks will show that the 1900+ chip solidly outperforms Intel's 2GHz Pentium 4. The new 1900+ chip runs at a clock speed of 1.6GHz. AMD argues that its Athlon provides better overall performance...
[November 5, 2001, 15:53]
Prescott Flunks Benchmark Tests
News Read the full report: "Intel Prescott: the benchmarks". The results come as little surprise to testers, as new Intel chips usually debut with lower performance than their predecessors at the same clock speed.
[February 2, 2004, 16:20]
AMD On The Attack In Processor Performance Row
News Since last year, AMD has been on a renewed crusade to convince users to pay attention to performance measures such as benchmarks, which are supposedly more accurate than clock speed. BAPCo, for its part, says that it ensures objectivity by building...
[August 30, 2002, 13:53]
EU Investigates Governments' Tech Procurement
News And although government agencies are allowed to describe the performance they are seeking from a particular piece of equipment using benchmarks, the Commission does not believe listing only clock speed is appropriate.
[October 14, 2004, 14:05]
Intel's Xeon Arrives This Summer
News A dual Xeon server should easily outperform a quad Pentium Pro on server applications, and transaction processing council benchmarks," said an Intel executive today. In the normal Pentium II the secondary cache runs at half the clock speed of the...
[May 20, 1998, 7:00]
AMD Athlon 64: The Benchmarks
Talkback While only clocked at 2GHz for the 64 bit 3200+, it managed to blow intels new extreme 3.2 GHz processor away in the benchmarks for 90 percent of the overall tests (for confirmation, see www.pcstats.com and view the articles on the athlon 64).
[November 4, 2003, 23:33]
Analysis: Why Major Players Snub AMD's Athlon
News Great benchmarks are all well and good but if they can't supply to demand for two months, it's a non-runner for Dell. In terms of raw clock speed, the Athlon outstripped the fastest PIII by a mighty 27 percent.
[August 26, 1999, 1:02]
AMD Working On New PC Rating Method
News Currently, PC makers can cite a number of measurements, including benchmarks -- tests that score performance based on how quickly the computer handles a certain task -- processor clock speeds; and even the performance of various components, such...
[August 22, 2002, 7:22]
Intel's Coppermine Onslaught
News Working in tandem, these two technologies have brought a performance boost in our benchmarks of 25 percent when compared to earlier Pentium III processors running at the exact same clock speed. At the top end of the clock speed range are desktop...
[October 27, 1999, 14:07]
Intel To Unleash New, Improved Celerons
News Clock-speed comparisons show a 0.18-micron Pentium III 600MHz with a 100MHz bus to be up to 30 percent faster than a 600MHz Celeron on certain benchmarks, sources said. The company on Wednesday will announce new 566MHz and 600MHz versions of the...
[March 29, 2000, 9:07]
Intel To Debut Celerons In March
News Clock speed-to-clock speed comparisons show the Pentium III 600MHz with a 100MHz bus to be up to 30 percent faster than a 600MHz Celeron on certain benchmarks, sources said. While the two chips will be based on the same technology, Intel's high-end...
[February 29, 2000, 9:33]
2GHz PCs Ready For Launch
News You will probably find that the benchmarks will favor the Intel product," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research. With the clock-speed boost, the Pentium 4 will likely gain a slight edge, as the fastest Athlon tops out at 1.4GHz.
[August 24, 2001, 8:48]
Intel V AMD: Let The Battle Begin
News Intel says the 600MHz Coppermine Pentium III, when combined with its forthcoming 820 chip set, perform between 12 and 20 percent faster than the current 600MHz Pentium III chips on performance benchmarks.
[October 4, 1999, 15:49]
Intel Draws Notebook And Desktop Chip Lines Together
News Despite the speed gap, Intel's and AMD's chips are extremely close in performance, with AMD's chips winning a number of benchmarks. Typically, Intel took its desktop chip and added some features, such as SpeedStep, to reduce power consumption and...
[March 30, 2004, 8:30]
Intel Talks Up Next-generation Chips
News Instead, Intel will count on its microarchitectural improvements and a faster front-side bus to deliver the 20 percent improvement in performance over AMD's chips, based on standard benchmarks, Eden said.
[February 20, 2006, 8:25]
