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691188 2008-07-22 10:41:00 Hi

I was wondering if my athlon 3800+ is faster than a pentium 4?

CPU Speed: 2.41 Ghz

System Requirements Lab rated my cpu at 3.80 GHZ... Is this true or false :illogical ?
dian77 (13936)
691189 2008-07-22 11:13:00 Yes, that is the RATED speed performance to a pentium...however actually speed is only 2.4, it has the smaller L2 cache of 512Kb, the 4000+ is same speed but with larger cache of 1Mb.

The speed rating is due to the higher IPC or instruction per cycle that the amd chip had over the pentium 4, not to mention the faster on chip memory controller...
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