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Intel Prescott Released

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-CPU dept.

daemonslayer writes "The nondisclosure agreement on Intel's long awaited new Pentium 4, codenamed Prescott, has just been lifted. So can it beat its predecessor, the Northwood? Find out at Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, or any of the other thousand review sites." Or HotHardware, PC Magazine, XBitLabs, or HardOCP. Basically, looks like it's faster, but still not the fastest in all areas. Tide goes in, tide goes out.

3 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Slower!!! by PhrozenF · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why don't you go check benchmarks before you say faster....Most sites say it is slower than the earlier Pentium 4 because of the increased number of stages in the pipeline. And obviously, it's beaten blue by the AMD A64 3400+ in more than half of the real-world benchmarks.

    Sure, the increase in cache helps, but the increase in pipeline stages really kills intensive non-repetitive computing tasks...

    and oh...i think I got first post!

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  3. Re:Athlon Performance Ratings by naztafari · · Score: 5, Informative

    "is AMD going to adjust its PR Rating to the new cores that Intel has?"

    I don't think so. AMD Athlon PRs are not measured against Intel Chips.

    AFAIK, the AMD Athlon PR numbers are the newer CPUs' (Athlon XPs, 64s) ratings against the older Athlon Thunderbirds which were the last ones that were labeled and sold in MHz/GHz.

    So roughly, an Athlon XP2600+ would be akin to an Athlon Thunderbird that was theoretically made to run at 2.6GHz

    Remember, a 1.33GHz Athlon Thunderbird stacked up pretty well against a 1.7GHz P4 back then, and only lost out on SSE optimizations.