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Dual-Core Duel: AMD Beats Intel

First look: Two processors in one Athlon chip give performance extra oomph.

Anush Yegyazarian

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PC Equipped With AMD's Dual-Core Chip Bests Intel's Dual-Core System

Footnotes: 1In the multitasking test, systems load various Web pages while encoding video with Windows Media Encoder.

2Average of previously tested systems.

How We Test: All systems were tested with WorldBench 5 and ran Windows XP; for test details see our WorldBench 5 page. Application tests are part of WorldBench 5. All rights reserved. We used reference systems from AMD and Intel for the dual-core tests and for the 3.73-GHz Pentium 4 EE test. Intel-based PCs were tested with Hyper-Threading on.

Chart Notes: For WorldBench 5, higher is better; elsewhere, lower is better. Bold denotes best score. Systems in italics are comparison units.

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