Dual-Core Shoot Out - Intel vs. AMD

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 4, 2005 @08:43AM from the draw-pilgram dept.

sebFlyte writes "The Intel vs AMD battle of the benchmarks continues. ZDNet is running its rather comprehensive-looking guide to a side-by-side test of Intel and AMD's dual-core desktop chips, the Athlon 64 X2 3200+ and the Pentium D 820. They look at pure performance, as well as the difference it makes to apps you might use on the desktop. In the end, AMD comes out as the winner. From the article: 'AMD currently offers the most attractive dual core option. The Athlon 64 X2 3800+ may cost $87 more than its Intel counterpart, the Pentium D 820, but the AMD chip is a much better performer. It also uses considerably less power.'"

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Re:I am _so_ sick of the x86 architecture by RailGunner · 2005-11-04 08:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

Won't somebody please make a commodity Power PC box I can run Linux on?
They already did, it's called the Mac Mini. You can run Yellow Dog Linux, Slackintosh, an several other distros on it right now.
And technically, the Opteron is the x86-64 architecture.