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Intel Takes the Lead
Steve Gibson
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Well it's finally happened, the battle between Intel and AMD for the speed crown has been won for the moment. Intel today unveiled the 2.53GHz P4 chip running at an insane 533mhz bus speed on the new i850E chipset, with no word from AMD. Tech-Report sums it up well:

There's no reason to mince words about this one. Intel has clearly and unambiguously taken the performance lead away from AMD now. The faster front-side bus speeds are helpful, as is the clock speed boost to 2.53GHz. Combined, the Pentium 4 has enough extra performance to beat out the Athlon XP 2100+ in all but a few of our tests.

Read the reports on HardOCP , Tech-Report , HotHardware , Tweak3D , AnandTech , Tom's Hardware Guide , and SimHQ

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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