AMD 2700+ compared to Celeron D 2.8

[SWAYED]

I checked the prices for these 2 on pricewatch.com and comparably price wise they are within a dollar or two. The thing is I dont know which is better, even though 2.8 ghz is faster than the amd's 2.17 ghz. I heard something about AMD's number = too an Intel 2.7 and that amds are better for gaming. So if you know which is more bang for my buck without Serious overclocking that would be great.

[chipcollector]

An amd athlon 2700+ would be faster than a 2.8GHz celeron. I believe the rating amd gives (2700+, 3500+, 4800+, etc) means that the certain cpu would perform like a 2.7GHz, 3.5GHz, or a 4.8GHz cpu.

But you should compare the amd athlon 2700+ to a pentium 4, not a celeron. Compare the celerons to the AMD Semprons, since semprons are amd's celeron

[MicroNecessian]

That is correct mostly. The Amd AthlonXP PR rates are comparable to the Pentium 4 class processor example: Amd AthlonXP PR rate 2700+ means its performance is close to a Pentium 4 at a clock of 2.7ghz. But as for the Celeron 2.8ghz compared to a Amd 2700+ processor is no comparison. The 2700+ would kill the Celeron in any app by a tremedous lead only because the Celeron has less cache than the P4 and inherrits the P4's super long pipelines. This kills the Celerons performance due to lack of enough cache to correct pipeline errors as quickly. Long story short.

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