Meanwhile, this, er, "authoritative source" has the AMD-Intel ghz gap stretching out to 16-1. I got no idea where they pulled that figure out of, but the rest of the conclusion of this piece seems less disputable.
Athlon vs Pentium III : Shootout at 1 GHz Part 2 gamepc.com
Unfortunately, no matter what I've said in the last five pages, price will make or break a consumer's CPU purchase. Of course, everyone has different measures on how much processing power is worth so much money. I'm going to try and avoid that landmine and just state the facts about the matter. AMD is walloping Intel in terms of pricing and volume, while AMD has had 1 GHz chips out and in systems for quite some time now, only recently are we seeing Intel 1 GHz chips come out on the market. Since there is so little supply of the Intel 1 GHz chips to go around, the pricing for them is quite high. As AMD's Jerry Sanders recently said, "volume is the vaccine", and with AMD out shipping gigahertz processors 16-1 compared to Intel, the volume of the Athlon is surely giving Intel a shot in the arm. As of today, 1 GHz Coppermine's retail for well over $1000, while 1 GHz Thunderbird Athlons are going for around the $500-$600 mark.
For the same clock speed, a 40-50% difference in price is simply astonishing.
Actually, if you go by the pricewatch low price, it's 56% at the moment, $1097 vs. $482, but what's a few % among friends?
Cheers, Dan. |
