ThePath

As far as I know P3 is better than P4 in terms of clock-for-clock performance

So, you are saying that it is slower than P3 but faster than P4 ?

losttsol

Is this the Atom for phones? I know they've been working on one.

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GANDALFtheGREY

What kind of crack have you been smoking? As far as I know Pentium 4 came after Pentium 3 and thus was a higher performing chip, unless I'm completely wrong and for some reason Intel decided with P4 that high clock speeds were more important than performance..............please, someone tell me I'm wrong haha.

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Takendown2

Here you go, P3 is faster clock for clock VS P4s... and these Atoms are around the speed of a p4 clock for clock

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arekieh

ahhahahahahha^^^^^^^^ LOLOLOL

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gamer11200

Isn't the Atom 330 still better? It's dual core & hyperthreading

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bomfunk

That's exactly what they did. All NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4/D) were designed for high clockspeeds, and had extremely poor performance per clock. Highly optimized applications did run best on P4/D, but in general applications P3 did beat P4 clock-for-clock.

EDIT: Also, Core and Core2 are actually based on the same P6 architecture the Pentium 3 was based on... with aim for efficiency and better IPC count.

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Lord Mirko

Intel Atom Dual Core 2.0 GHz.
When will that come out, Q1 2010 or...

Tator Tot

Interesting.

A 2.0 Atom is nice. That should solve most any issues. And couple this with Ion if that ever comes out (PLEASE COME OUT)

And you would have a fairly powerful machine.

The only down fall of Atoms right now is that same stupid video chipset that even hangs on 720p video...

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lordikon

What? You're saying the older architecture of the Pentium 3 was faster clock-for-clock then a Pentium 4?

This was ONLY true for the very first P4's that were 1Ghz. I forgot exactly why that was the case, but it didn't remain that way for very long. The very next process change on the P4's changed that.

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