This chart may be more suitable:
http://www.cpubenchmark.ne
It lists the AMD Athlon 64 3800+ as similar performance to a Pentium 4 3.40Ghz.
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Browse All TopicsWhat Pentium Processor is an AMD Athlon 3800+ 1.80GHz comperalble to? It doesn't say x2 so I iamgine it's not dual core.
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This chart may be more suitable:
http://www.cpubenchmark.ne
It lists the AMD Athlon 64 3800+ as similar performance to a Pentium 4 3.40Ghz.
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by: MASQUERAIDPosted on 2009-11-03 at 13:59:02ID: 25734260
It really isn't as straightforward as AMD XXX is equivalent to Intel YYYY it depends a lot on what it's connected up to and being asked to do.
k.ne t/low_ end_ cpus.h tml
As a rough guide look on it as being a good Pentium D
These performance charts which try to rule out exernal factors might help
http://www.cpubenchmar