A few twelvemonth ago , AMD was the king of performance per James Watt with its K8 architecture , while Intel keep pushing the Pentium 4 quicker and hotter , until it basically had tochunk its NetBurst architecture . So this is something of a nostalgia trip for AMD fanboys : InTom ’s Hardware ’s tests , a 1GHz Athlon 64 2000 + using the years - one-time K8 architecture “ beats theIntel Atom 230 in energy consumption and processing power ” and “ outperforms [ it ] in several bench mark tests ” even though the Atom check is running at 1.6GHz chipping . How ? In part , because the K8 architecture is just all-fired expert , but also because AMD ’s 780 gram desktop platform is more modern — so it has more lineament too — while the Intel 945GC chipset is old and busted . The AMD system is quieter too , because it does n’t even postulate a cooling fan . So while the 8 - W Athlon 64 2000 + central processing unit technically uses more power , the AMD system of rules on the whole consumes less than the Intel apparatus , idling or under a full load . AMD acquire at something — between this minor triumph and ATI ’s lateston top of the existence , it ’s almost like the good ol’ cutthroat sidereal day again . Almost . [ Tom ’s Hardware ]
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