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fordy on 23 July 2013
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RazorDragon said:
fordy said:
ethomaz said:
It is a share how today a AMD CPU running at 5Ghz can't hold a Intel CPU at 3Ghz in single clock performance... but when I remember around 2004 lol how the things changed.


Why? What happened around 2004, and how is it relevant to now?


Athlon 64 happened. And, before it, Athlon XP happened. It's relevant because of context: Those CPUs outperformed the much-higher clocked Pentium 4/Pentium D, while now what happens is the exactly opposite. And those AMD CPUs actually outperformed Intel's at a lower price...

As mentioned before, the fact that AMD outperformed Intel for that time wasn't because the Athlon architecture was entirely spectacular, rather it was Intel's stubbornness to embrace NetBurst as part of it's marketing ploy to "make clockspeed count". This became more evident when Intel eventually scrapped NetBurst and moved to Core architecture, and overnight we saw Intel CPUs once again outperforming Athlons, despite the fact that Athlon had an on-die MMC. Once Intel followed suit with an on-die MMC in Nehalem, it only pushed their performance even more strides ahead of AMD.