Re: [Fractint] AMD Athlon XP vs Intel Pentium 4

Lee Skinner wrote:

Does anyone know if the newest AMD Athlon XP is better (speedwise) at running a 16-bit application (Fractint, of course) than the newest Pentium 4's?

At the same clock speed the Athlon tends to be considerably faster in most situations. Intel made some architectural changes in the P4 that make it rather bad at running legacy code, so I expect this will make the Athlon an even more atractive choice for running Fractint. A lot has been written about Athlon vs. P4. Check the archives at Tom's Hardware or Ars Technica (among others) for more in-depth technical reviews. Hope that was helpful, Pedro Lopes