Well-known as a gamer's best friend, AMD chips have dominated the enthusiast sector for quite a while now. AMD is now moving the Athlon 64 to a new platform, called AM2, with a new line of chips and a DDR2 memory controller. How do the new chips line up against the old - and against Intel's Core Duo?

"AMD's move to Socket AM2 and DDR2 has been reasonably successful. Comparing Socket 939 performance to the performance of a chip with the same characteristics as it on the new AM2 socket, it can be said that there are some performance improvements, but there are also performance deficits in some situations too. We think that it is safe to say that the move to DDR2 brings incremental performance benefits to the K8 architecture. "



Link: Bit Tech