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Here's that thread I was looking for...they've already tested a lot of systems but it is a little out of date. Still, the fastest P4 tested was a 3.06 ghz and there are dual AMD 2600+ systems in there. Obviously the dual AMD 2600+ wins by a large margin but there are two processors in that box so that is expected.

I based my P4 buying decision on the following:

Bench Score/processor clock or speed rating. Using this method, the AMD XP processors (the 2600+ models) get a score of .401 bench units per speed unit. The P4 got .463 bench units per speed unit. So my reasoning was the P4 could do more work in Vue per speed rating. So I figured, with a P4 ghz rating matched with an AMD speed rating, the P4 would do more work. The fastest AMD XP is 3200+ so I figured a P4 at 3.0 ghz would get just as good if not better scores, and they were priced about the same.

What I forgot to take into account is that a dual processor system gets less than 2x the performace of a single processor. So in theory, a single AMD processor would get a much higher bench unit per speed unit score than the dual system divided by 2. That is where I messed up. Oh well. I'm going to render that scene they tested on that thread and see what speeds I get, then I'll post that here. EDIT: Scratch that, I don't have the scene they're using on my Vue Pro CD's and they're using Vue regular anyway, not pro, so I don't know if my benchmarks would help.

Message edited on: 08/17/2004 16:31