D-Bone
Dec 22nd '03, 10:56 AM
AMD has released any early Christmas present for all of us. 64-bit computing at half the price! Anandtech has whipped up an early preview of this processor and I think this quote says is all:
Value, however, is not just about price; it is about performance for your dollar. The Athlon64 3000+ delivers value in spades. Running at the same speed as the 3200+, the reduction in cache to 512k has only a minor impact on performance. In almost every benchmark, the 3000+ is only a few percent lower in performance than a 3200+. Even more important, the 3000+ performs very well compared to Intel?s 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 ? a chip that sells for almost double the cost of the Athlon64 3000+.
You can read the review right here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1937&p=1
Value, however, is not just about price; it is about performance for your dollar. The Athlon64 3000+ delivers value in spades. Running at the same speed as the 3200+, the reduction in cache to 512k has only a minor impact on performance. In almost every benchmark, the 3000+ is only a few percent lower in performance than a 3200+. Even more important, the 3000+ performs very well compared to Intel?s 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 ? a chip that sells for almost double the cost of the Athlon64 3000+.
You can read the review right here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1937&p=1