Hexus.net have posted their AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Clawhammer review which compares VIA's K8T800 against Nvidia's nForce3 150 chipset! Here's a rip.
The AMD Athlon 64 FX-51, a CPU that's essentially a rebadged Opteron running at 2.2GHz, is currently gaining a number of plaudits from the reviewing media. 2.2GHz clock speed doesn't sound like an awful lot in a world where Intel's fastest consumer-level CPU has already hit 3.2GHz and shows no signs of abating, but it's not how big your clock is, it's how you use it. Performance, AMD will not tire of telling you, is the sum of pure MHz and the number of instructions completed per clock cycle. AMD's True Performance Initiative seeks to educate the consumer in just this respect. A 1.6GHz Applebred Duron isn't as fast as a 1.6GHz 142 Opteron, yet both run at the same clock speed. Massive architectural differences allow the latter to spank the former in almost every conceivable benchmark.
Athlon64 VIA K8T800 vs. nForce3 150
The AMD Athlon 64 FX-51, a CPU that's essentially a rebadged Opteron running at 2.2GHz, is currently gaining a number of plaudits from the reviewing media. 2.2GHz clock speed doesn't sound like an awful lot in a world where Intel's fastest consumer-level CPU has already hit 3.2GHz and shows no signs of abating, but it's not how big your clock is, it's how you use it. Performance, AMD will not tire of telling you, is the sum of pure MHz and the number of instructions completed per clock cycle. AMD's True Performance Initiative seeks to educate the consumer in just this respect. A 1.6GHz Applebred Duron isn't as fast as a 1.6GHz 142 Opteron, yet both run at the same clock speed. Massive architectural differences allow the latter to spank the former in almost every conceivable benchmark.
Athlon64 VIA K8T800 vs. nForce3 150
