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[BoostedIntegra]

If you want top performance today it would be an Extreme Edition P4. In 32bit apps the Extreme wastes the fx series AMD's. 64bit different story but I said "today" save your money and wait for Intel's new CPU's with 64bit extensions and Intel will again be on top. Price shouldn't be a huge issue as the new design gets more cuts out of a sheet of silicon. It will be a back and forth topic... But Intel has more resources and funding behind them, so if they want they can always win.

[Empty_5oul]

here is some benchmarking between the two

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040201/

go to "benchmark results" to see the nice graph comparisions.

intel seems to do better overall, but the numbers are often very close right up at the top.

[AMDave]

apparently there are 2 CISC instruction set commands missing from the Intel implementation of 64-bit.

this was raised in last months APC-Mag review.

in the same article AMD denied assisting Intel with the engineering of their combatant to the AMD-64.

it was alledged that Intel had based their 64-bit implementation on an "early" model AMD-64 and might in fact have "missed the boat" on this one.

time will tell. evidence is as yet scarce.

Intel have already cancelled their scheduled 4.0Ghz P4.
They said it was not going to happen.
They have moved their resources into their multi-Core project instead.

The future will have a lot less to do with 64 bit addressing and a lot more to do with how many CPU cores you can fit on a silicon die.

Look for single chip implementations of SIMD & MIMD architectures coming to a desktop near you....

The next "slugfest" in CPU land is going to be VERY interesting indeed.

(I've been looking into blade servers recently = EXPENSIVE !
regardless...I still want my dual/quaq opteron box....drool)