Under $100 AMD whups on on Intel

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 9:03 am

the celeries are not even close to the 2500 barton, there's a surprise

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927

rogue · Post by **rogue** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 10:37 am

Yeah, celleries are pretty terrible performers. However, Intel still has the market advantage and can therefore sell em at a higher price even though the AXP's kick their arse.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:03 pm

It's nice to see Intel called on the carpet for what truly is worthless POS CPU. What's sad is people will see a Celeron @ 2.6 GHz and automatically think that it's faster than say a Barton 2500+.

It's been a while since clock speed was the determining factor regarding CPU performance but try educatiing the general public that it's IPC ( instructions per clock cycle ) and it will take you a decade. So entrenched is the Intel marketing machine that higher clock speed will always translate into "better" to the masses. If they only knew.

Regarding the Celerons.........what DOGS !!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 12:54 am

i never realized they were that bad myself

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:04 am

OMFG, the duron 1.6 whips a 2.6 gig celery, whoss making them nowadays cyrix? LOL

Demrok · Post by **Demrok** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:39 pm

my old Tbird 1.3 now belongs to my buddy, he went out and bought a 2 gig celery thinking it was faster and when he tried playing NFS underground he got a whopin 7 FPS... it was like watching a slideshow...
slapped the 9200se from the celery into my old Tbird and she hummed along at the same details and 40-50 FPS

Celery has become a huge dung beetle infested pile of poo

zandor · Post by **zandor** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:55 am

That was a great article... the one thing I wish they'd done though is put an old P3 Celery in the comparison. Maybe a 1.3 Tualatin core Celery. I bet it would have smacked down the 2.0 on some of the tests. Now that would have been funny.

Bigal · Post by **Bigal** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:59 pm

....Intel getting put through the mud. Keep up the good work!

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:28 pm

Celery has become a huge dung beetle infested pile of poo

hehhe. good one!

since intel is still into pushing cpu's by their clock speed and not performance...i think they should create cpu's that perform the same as today's cpu's but run at 50GHz. that'll fool the public and they'll sell more. hehehe

it was sad when the p4's came out and were being outperformed by the p3's...because the p3's were more efficient at equal clock speeds.

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Under $100 AMD whups on on Intel

Under $100 AMD whups on on Intel

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