dwchang wrote:Actually although a similar costing P4 and Athlon will perform similarly, you're incorrect in that "top of the line" for both will perform similarly.
Obviously from your comments I should have been more clear. Yet, what I ment by "top of the line" was in reference to desktop processors that each company sells. Specifically the P4EE and Athlon 64 FX 51. The first text block in my post was a response to him and the second was a further suggestion of how to be more productive by getting a dual processor system.
dwchang wrote:As you already noted, a quad-Opteron will maul a dual xeon or anything comprable in price. Hell, even Phade bought a dual Opteron for the .org. I know what you mean though, but I figured I'd point that out since "top of the line" is a misleading word and I think you just meant "comprable." Like I demonstrated, a "top of the line" can be really expensive and significantly different in performance.
Yes, when we talk of multiple processors the benchmarks that I have seen of Opterons take the xeon to lunch big time. I know that the Opterons can scale much better.
dwchang wrote:Now to be realistic with price, I still say a "top of the line" Athlon 64 FX will pwn an *available* Intel solution. The benchmarks already provide sufficient evidence of this and it seems to win in nearly all things...gaming, encoding, etc.
Then again I'm obviously biased working at AMD, but again, the sites and benchmarks are there. Too bad benchmarks can never be 100% accurate either.
I agree that price/performance ratio goes to AMD.
The 64 FX51 is around $700 whereas the P4EE is around $1000. I cannot see why someone would go with the intel chip with that price difference (well maybe an intel zealot). Not to mention in most instances the Athlon 64 FX51 beats it anyways.
I am also an AMD fan (sure I don't work there, but I do own some of their stock).
The last intel computer; well actually the first windows computer that I had was an intel p166mmx. After that all of my computers have had AMD processors in them.
I do think that AMD is the best option. I just would rather not sound totally bias.
