This CPU actually performs better than Intel's top CPUs in a few benchmarks. Anyway, clockspeed isn't the deciding factor when talking about CPU architectures. AMD should have learned that when Intel had the high-clocked Pentium 4 which couldn't compete with their own lower-clocked Pentium III processors because of the long pipelines it had compared to Pentium III's short pipeline. They actually knew what to do when they released the Athlon XP and Athlon 64, but it seems they forgot how things work.








