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AMD and Nvidia claim 400MHz bus will beat Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 19 March 2003 - 19:59 · 27 comments & 2372 views

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THE COMBINATION OF an AMD Barton and the Nvidia Nforce 2 will beat Intel 3GHz+ Pentium 4 processors "with or without hyperthreading", according to internal documents seen by the INQUIRER. And both AMD and Nvidia claim that could be by as much as 25 per cent using a selected set of benchmarks. According to the documents, the combination of an Nvidia Nforce 2 Barton 3000+ combination will also outstrip the Via KT400 Barton 3000+ combination too, with some benchmarks such as WB HE GFX showing a boost of 25 per cent over the Via offerings.

The same documents we saw claimed that was true even for an Nforce 2 based Thoroughbred 2800+, compared to a Barton 3000+ using the Via KT400 chipset. The 400MHz front side bus using the SiSOFT Mem Int benchmark will boost performance over the 333MHz front side bus for AMD by around 18%, while DX-06 will show a 15% gain, and SiSOFT MemFP a 16% gain, the same documents showed.

Next year we'll see SoundStorm 2 from Nvidia, a discrete chip design designed for both AMD and Intel chips, according to the documents.

News source: The Inq

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