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To: TimF who wrote (22431)	12/13/2000 7:23:08 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

MaximumPC's P4/Athlon comparison Applications where Athlon 1.2 DDR prevailed Sysmark 2000 overall score (19%) PowerPoint 2000 (35%) Word 2000 (17%) Excel 2000 (33%) Communicator (29%) Bryce 4 (27%) CorelDraw 9 (34%) Elastic Reality 3.1 (25%) Paradox 9.9 (33%) Inspire 3D (52%) Music Match 5.0 (.wav==>.mp3) (13%) Adobe Premiere 5.1 (74%) Adobe Photoshop MPC actions (13%) Synthetic Benchmarks where Athlon Prevailed SiSoft Sandra Dhrystone (17%) SiSoft Sandra WHetstone (88%) Applications Where P4 Prevailed (advantage%) Quake III 640x480 (19%) MDK2 640x480 (14%) (Anand's results were opposite these) SETI test 3.0 CLI (11%) Naturally Speaking Pref 4.0 (8%) Windows Media Encoder 3.0 (45%) Canon ejay MP3 Plus 1.3 (.wav==>.mp3) (19%) Demo Applications Provided by Intel (not commercially available) where P4 Prevailed Rage Incoming Forces (45%) Adobe Premiere Ligos MPEG2 encoder test (36%) Synthetic Benchmarks where P4 Prevailed SiSoft Sandra CPU (174%) SiSoft Sandra FPU (133%) Draw your own conclusions. I see a lot more toys in the "P4 prevails" list than the "Athlon prevails" list, but here's the conclusions from the article: The P4 is not an Athlon killer. The Athlon is faster in many applications, far less expensive, and currently shipping in volume. The P4 kicks ass in 3D games and next-gen "multimedia" applications that you may or may not have a need for. The P4 sucks in tried-and-trued business applications -- but since these apps run fast enough anyway, you'll probably never even notice a slowdown in everyday use. Given the current software landscape we can't enthusiastically recommend a P4 pruchase at the present time. But if the world of computing plays out as Intel anticipates, the P4 is your CPU of the future. GROAN - yea, Inspire3D, Bryce, CorelDraw, Elastic Reality and Premiere are "fast enough." Petz