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P4 comparison

shireknight

shireknight

shireknight

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No-one seems to talk about Pentium 4's anymore, in fact it only seems to be me who is behind the times lol.

Anyhow I currently have a P4 3.4 but I have ordered a new PC which has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (2 x 3.16 GHZ) chip.

I know that on paper the E8500 looks less powerful than the P4 but Ive got the impression from this forum that just one of the cores of the E8500 is better than my P4 due to modern architecture.

I wondered if someone could give me an idea of how the two chips compare from a Pentium reference point of view please, ie is one of the cores of an E8500 equilivant to say a P4 3.5?, a P4 4.2?, a P4 5.0 -that kind of reference I'm sure you get my drift :)
 
You will not be disapponted. Its more than twice as fast and will make the system a whole lot smoother.

P4s werent that good even when they were released and were facing the Athlon 64
 
Actually, the first Pentium 4 appeared when AMD were still selling Thunderbird Athlons as their main processor ;)

But yes, the E8500 is worlds apart from any Pentium 4.
 
I went from a Pentium 4 (515, 2.9GHz) -> Pentium Dual Core E2140 (pretty much a core 2 with less cache, runs at 1.6GHz) and saw a fantastic increase in performance in just about everything, even casual use, things like using winrar it really makes the difference.
 
sr4470 said:
Actually, the first Pentium 4 appeared when AMD were still selling Thunderbird Athlons as their main processor ;)

But yes, the E8500 is worlds apart from any Pentium 4.
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True, but i was under the impression that for the bigger part of the P4s lifetime it was pitted against AMD64, may be wrong though :)

Thunderbird was in the same timeframe as Northwood P4, one the more decent P4s at the time, from Prescott onwards it was worse
 
Trunks9486 said:
True, but i was under the impression that for the bigger part of the P4s lifetime it was pitted against AMD64, may be wrong though :)

Thunderbird was in the same timeframe as Northwood P4, one the more decent P4s at the time, from Prescott onwards it was worse
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Willamette was the first Pentium 4 core, by the time Intel had transitioned to Northwood the Athlon XP was out (mid-2001).
 
Yep pretty sure the XP was out by then. Big fight for performance crown until the A64 came out to crush it, Northwood was indeed starting to pull away from the AXP though there were some programs it'd never win in, then that joke of a CPU prescott came out and sealed the deal of defeat until core 2 entered the world (with hints of its majesty coming from the Pentium Banias/Dothan/Yonah M series).
 
IT isnt really comparable to it in any Mhz style fashion. But if I had to say what clock you would need on a P4 to get a similar performance, I would say probably 8-9Ghz.
 
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