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By 91TTZ on 12/4/2007 2:19:29 PM , Rating: 2
AMD made the fastest 286, 386, 486 CPUs, usually coming late in that product's development. Their K6 was also faster than the Pentium for a while until the P2s and P3s came out.

The Athlon was faster than the P3, and until faster P4s came out until had no answer.

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By Omega215D on 12/4/2007 3:19:36 PM , Rating: 2
The Athlon 64 dominated the P4 line. I believe the K6 3 was faster than the P2 and competitive with the P3 for a bit.

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By MustangMike on 12/4/2007 7:45:27 PM , Rating: 2
The Athlon 64 dominated the P4 line.

I hate to be a nitpick, but your really comparing apples to oranges as the Athlon 64 is a 64bit cpu while the Pentium 4 was 32bit. Not only that but you're forgetting the Athlon XP Series. The Athlon series went up to 1.4GHz, the Athlon XP started ~1.4GHz and up to 2.2GHz When Intel came out with the higher P4 chips, AMD did respond with the Athlon XP series. Anyone remember the Quantispeed architecture and the ridiculous Model naming scheme. For example the Athlon XP 1800+ was running at 1.538GHz but due to Quantispeed architecture it was said that the 1800+ could beat a 1.8GHz Pentium 4. In the beginning it was the case but when you got to the 2400+ and up the numbers really didn't match up.

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By MustangMike on 12/4/2007 7:48:55 PM , Rating: 2
Sorry about that, it seems I have a couple grammar issues.


Should be

but you're really comparing apples to oranges. The Athlon 64 is a 64bit cpu while the Pentium 4 is a 32bit cpu.

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