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sonic, bottom line A64 beats Prescott on 32/64 bits
We already know AMD wins the vast majority of benchmarks against Prescott on 32 bit applications. It's only going to be a larger margin for AMD on 64 bits because AMD uses Hypertransport which blows away Intel's FSB, and also AMD chips have an on chip memory controller. Intel chips will have bottleneck problems compared to AMD because of these 2 factors and Intel chips will fall even further behind AMD's at 64 bits. Throw in the latency penalties for Intel Prescott's having a 30+ stage pipeline and their use of L3 cache and it only gets better for AMD at 64bits. Cha-ching.