Comparison chart of Intel/AMD cpus?

[James Knott]

Pavel Zaitsev wrote:
> В Птн, 06/05/2005 в 02:12 -0400, Walter Dnes пишет:
> 
>>  In the old days, we only had to worry about whether we were buying a
>>486 or a 486SuX ("affectionate nickname").  Now there's a whole slew of
>>Intel cpus, and AMD is a serious competitor, which doubles the list.  I
>>believe that the AMD Sempron is equivalant to the Intel Celeron.  Beyond
>>that, I'm lost.  Is there a comparison chart on the web somewhere?
>>
> 
> 
> Well benchmarks are real tricky thing here, as in general performance.
> Most people know that AMD kicks ass, but if say code was optimized
> blindly
> for Intel chips you might be not so lucky. I'd say arrange a list of
> most important
> applications and search google for what people think of the chip and
> software
> combinations... Generic benchmarks don't show responsiveness of
> hardware,
> some other peculiar semi-subjective bits.
> hth,
> pavel

One nice thing about Linux, is that you can recomplile the software, so 
that it's optimal for your system.  However, is the potential 
performance improvement worth the effort?
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