Chris Connolly heeft wederom de 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird eens vergeleken met zijn 1GHz Pentium III concurrent van Intel. Interessant is dat het prijsverschil tussen de twee gigantisch is opgelopen; mede dankzij de recente prijsverlaging van AMD is de Athlon Tbird 1GHz de helft goedkoper dan de P3 @ 1GHz! Aangezien de Athlon ook nauwelijks trager is en vele malen beter verkrijgbaar is wordt de keuze nu wel heel makkelijk...
Let's get this out of the way first, if you're running a system with a 1 GHz processor (Intel or AMD), the bottleneck of your system is going to be the video card. Even the most high-end GeForce2 GTS cards max out around 1024x768x32 or 1280x1024x16, no matter how much processing speed simply won't matter after this point. Hopefully, we'll see next-generation video cards from ATI, 3dfx, and Nvidia shatter these barriers by the end of the year.
AMD's Thunderbird has a LOT going for it, low-cost, unbeatable availability, and speeds up to par and sometimes faster than Intel's 1 GHz. On the other hand, Intel's chips run incredibly cool, and are still the only ones that can run in an SMP configuration, not to mention they can run almost flawlessly in two year old BX boards.
All in all, if you have the giga-urge for one of these chips today, the Thunderbird at 1 GHz is the obvious choice due to it's price/performance ratio. As time goes on and Intel's yields improve, I think Intel's chip will get more and more cost effective and will start to look pretty good. One thing is for sure, we know a 1.1 GHz shootout can't be too far away.
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