Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz, (478-pin), 0.13u, 800MHz Bus (HT) [bold]VS[/bold]Athlon64 3000+ with HT Soc 754 Retail Box no prefrences just what has best performance.
- The Athlon64 doesnt have HT. - There isnt really such thing as "best performance" ... if you're looking for a specific task then one may do a better job than another ... othwrwise both should be sufficient for avg Joe type of task
In my opinion the athlon64 3000 is the best for gaming, but it also depends on what gfx card you have in the pc. If you have a radeon 9200 in the athlon64 and a radeon 9800 in the p4 the p4 would be better for games as it has a way better gfx card. If they were both radeon 9800 then i would say the athlon64.
Its a pretty close call either way. Now if we were comapring the FX5x than this would be a clear winner. Still i think it would tend towards the A64.
The problem is, a lot of software is optimized for Intel. The true performance of the CPUs is therefore clouded by Intel brainwashing/browbeating of programmers. Intel provides the best/latest assemblers and pushes the latest Intel optimizations ie. hyperthreading, SSE3 etc. In some ways, the 'mainstream' is still heavily Intel. I take great delight in the fact that World Champion Scuderia Ferrari uses 100% AMD only, in everything they do! There's hope... ;-)
