Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 14:22 UTC
"After reading the round-by-round account of our dual-core desktop CPU prizefight, it should come as no shock that AMD's Athlon 64 X2 chips are the runaway victors here, laying out the Intel Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition 840 chips pins up. If we had to call out one chip, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is an outstanding bargain given the competition, but as our results show, any AMD dual-core CPU will serve you better than its similarly priced Intel equivalent."
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2005-07-07
Could it be that these Photoshop filters use instruction sets like SEE/SEE2?
SSE and SSE2 are supported on all Athlon 64 chips. SSE3 is supported on all dual cores and single cores since Venice.
Benchmarks have been rigged in the past by looking for GenuineIntel rather than checking the appropriate CPUID bit to determine whether these extensions are available.