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If you go shopping for sub-$100 processors right now, you'll be faced with two main contenders: Core 2-based Intel chips and AMD Athlon X2s. The Athlons typically have higher clock speeds for the price, but their Intel rivals often perform better. Why?
A good two years after the debut of the Core 2 Duo, Real World Technologies has put together an in-depth comparison of the Athlon and Core 2 designs. Rather than delve into the obscure architectural details of the two offerings, RWT used apps called VTune and CodeAnalyst to poke around under the hood and get hard numbers for things like instructions per clock, branch predictor accuracy, and how the chips handle their L1 and L2 caches.
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A good two years after the debut of the Core 2 Duo, Real World Technologies has put together an in-depth comparison of the Athlon and Core 2 designs. Rather than delve into the obscure architectural details of the two offerings, RWT used apps called VTune and CodeAnalyst to poke around under the hood and get hard numbers for things like instructions per clock, branch predictor accuracy, and how the chips handle their L1 and L2 caches.
