Well it's finally happened, the battle between Intel and AMD for the speed crown has
been won for the moment. Intel today unveiled the 2.53GHz P4 chip running at an insane
533mhz bus speed on the new i850E chipset, with no word from AMD. Tech-Report sums it up
well:
There's no reason to mince words about this one. Intel
has clearly and unambiguously taken the performance lead away from AMD now. The faster
front-side bus speeds are helpful, as is the clock speed boost to 2.53GHz. Combined, the
Pentium 4 has enough extra performance to beat out the Athlon XP 2100+ in all but a few of
our tests.
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