Intel's Pentium 4 3.4GHz Processors Reviewed

Posted by timothy on Monday March 22, 2004 @12:33AM from the boy-are-my-lips-tired dept.

EconolineCrush writes "In one of the most gratuitous benchmarking indulgences I've seen, Tech Report has tested Intel's new Northwood and Prescott Pentium 4 3.4GHz processors against sixteen competitors ranging from the relatively old school Athlon XP to the opulent Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, with plenty of Athlon 64 action thrown in for good measure. Performance is tested in a wide range of applications, including gaming, rendering, image processing, media encoding, speech recognition, and scientific number crunching. Even if you're not interested in Intel's latest Pentium 4s, the review nicely shows where 18 of the fastest desktop chips from AMD and Intel stack up against each other."

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Re:Pretty poor LinPack performance... by Professor+J+Frink · 2004-03-22 01:52 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And don't forget the whole thing about being the first to move their product base to 32bit RISC (where they were beaten to it by quite a few years by Acorn and their ARM-based RISC OS range).

The more you look at things the more you realise it's all been done before by someone else years ago.

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