[storm22]

My friend thinks that a 3 gig celeron with 256 of cache is better than a 2.5 gig atahalon with 612 of l2 and 256 of l1 wich cpu is better?

 

[cyrixMII300]

the athlon...just take a look at the cache and u dont go any further...well to tell u the truth even the intel p4 3.0GHz struggles with the 2.5Ghz athlon what more the celeron...but does a 3.0 celeron exist?

 

[Hollowman8904]

No... they only made celerons up to 2.8GHz (as far as I know)

 

[711]

must be a celeron d, those come in all kinds of flavors, including 2.93, 3.00 and 3.06

 

[cyrixMII300]

goodness gracious...was thinking i lost my computing brain there for a while....

was seriously starting to look for info on 3.0 celeron...

 

[laboitenoire]

It's all a matter of operations per clock cycle. Most Intel chips do 6, with the mobile chips scoring a little higher. Most Athlon chips do 9 or 10.

 

[CanadaGradeEh]

Usually the GHz performance ratio between AMD and Intel is 3:2.
For example, a 3 GHz Intel processor will roughly equal that of a 2 GHz AMD processor, although for the specifics it really depends on the model.

 

[Zipnogg]

I don't know about 612 kb L2 cache (did you meant to type 512?)...

Anyways.... the Athlon will win the match. However, it would also depend on what kind of Athlon it would be... like if it's one of the older versions of Athlons (32-bit), then the benchies may come out to be about the same.

However, from the surface point of view, it seems that the Athlon is more likely to win the match w/ the Celeron.

 

[The Duke]

OC that 2500+ and then compare it to a Celery

 

[Namrac]

2.5GHz Athlon x 1.5 (AMD-Pentium conversion factor) = 3.75GHz Pentium 4

That Athlon is equivilent to a 3.75 GHz P4. It blows any Celly away.