What it takes for a P4 to beat an FX-55

[Steve]

How high must a P4 be clocked to beat a FX-55 in certain benchmarks? Around 5ghz accoring to Hardware Analysis:

We all know that Craig Barret went down on his knees and pleaded for forgiveness after Intel announced it will not be releasing a 4GHz Pentium 4. AMD must have thought that was pretty funny, as the architecture that was said to scale upwards of 5GHz didn’t even get to 4GHz, but maybe the idea of Intel’s CEO on his knees was enough for them, I’m afraid we’ll never know. We’ll also never know whether the 4GHz would have been the pinnacle of performance on introduction, but will we? Well, getting a Pentium 4 processor to 4GHz is actually a lot easier than getting Craig Barret on his knees; it just takes a bit of effort. With the 600 series processors we evaluated a few days ago that effort simply meant upping the clocks to 4GHz, there really was nothing to it. So we’ll go ahead and answer that question for you; how exactly does a 4GHz Pentium 4 stack up to AMD’s flagship Athlon 64 FX55 on the PCIe platform?

[The article]

[suryad]

Yowza! Now if we only could get could comparos between a dual 2.5 ghz mac and an athlon fx 55...that would be great.

[Kumagoro]

When the P4 originally came out it was said that the PIII was better and intels
excuse was that at higher clocks the long pipeline of the P4 will become more effective.
So what clock speed were they expecting to kick it into top gear?
Its funny that this monumental cock up was from the start of its life.

[weebroonieuk]

Yowza! Now if we only could get could comparos between a dual 2.5 ghz mac and an athlon fx 55...that would be great.

and how would we have a fair comparison when it runs the mac os and the fx on windows ?

[Spunkey]

*bookmarks link to wave at some Intel fanboy next time one kicks off*

[Steve]

When the P4 originally came out it was said that the PIII was better and intels
excuse was that at higher clocks the long pipeline of the P4 will become more effective.
So what clock speed were they expecting to kick it into top gear?

I think 4ghz was mentioned by some reviewers.