INTEL Compares Its CPUs with AMD Ones

Modesty has never been a strong point of INTEL. But I guess that a big IT company with a lot of success and whose sales are great shouldn’t be modest. At least when talking about the competition. And that doesn’t happen too often so when it does you’d better get ready. Because the show is great and it’s also free.

For example, INTEL has recently provided its customers with a chart comparing its desktop CPUs against AMD's, using Sysmark 2004SE. I don’t know if the benchmark’s results are accurate or not, but you can check them out for yourselves. Moreover, details regarding the system (I mean memory modules, motherboard, VGA card, HDD and software) were not released so one can’t use the tests as an objective tool of comparison between the two giants.

Roadmaps that are shown in the picture contain eight Intel processors compared with six AMD desktop CPUs, all of them using the new AM2 socket. The numbers found beside the CPUs represent the score achieved in the benchmark. And as you can see, the picture speaks for itself (in the name of INTEL, of course).

Now you mustn’t think that AMD is actually much better than that. A 5200+ CPU should perform about the same as an E6400 CPU with the same amount of cache but running at lower speed. AMD’s results are somewhat poorer that they should be but the difference is not big here. I wonder how a 6000+ would perform in such a test. I guess that a 3GHz AMD could be as fast as an E6600 in most of the application. But until this CPU comes out, AMD still lags way behind INTEL. And I don’t need a sheet to tell me that.