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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (102082)	4/4/2000 10:24:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1577191

Scumbria, Intel's only problem is that they can't actually manufacture CPUs at the same clock speed as Athlon. This makes their "overclock for clock" (TM Mackerel) comparisons rather stupid. Actually, I like the dollar for dollar performance comparisons, although there are few of them out there. Suppose you have $190. That can buy you Pentium 550, or Athlon 650. For $230, you can get Pentium 600 or Athlon 700. For $323, you can get Pentium 666 or Athlon 750. So these systems should be benchmarked against each other. If all you want is the highest Instructions per clock cycle, than Cyrix M2 wins. Joe