Personaly I always thought that AMD was better than Intel, but these benchmark results are a bit shocking I think, especially if you keep the 600Mhz (!!) speed difference in mind. Saw this at The Inquirer, hold on to your seats P4-owners: PovRay 3.1 (pixel per second)
P4,2.0gig(asus P4t): 1052
P4,1.8gig(asus P4t): 972
K7,1.4gig(A7v266): 1129 LinuxKernel(2.4) make -j4 [s]
p4-2gig: 6886
p4-1.8: 6391
k7-1.4: 8093 BAPCo SYSmark2000*
p4-2gig: 234
p4-1.8: 218
k7-1.4: 248 * Intels own benchmark Read The Full Story