What is the diference between Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Turion 64 x2?

Answer 1

There are a bunch of them, mostly technical in the implimentation of how they are hooking the two processors together. The speed of them in communicating between the system and the processors. The Turion 64 X2 uses a Hypertransport interface with a maximum bandwidth of 10.7 GB/s to connect to the memory and another 6.4 GB/s to the I/O chipset; Intel still relies on a 5.3 GB/s FSB667 for both memory and I/O. Although the jury is out on whether this gives AMD any speed advantage.

Unless I am mistaken, I don't believe the 64 bit duos are out yet either. The Turion is 64 bit ready which means it can access over 4GB of ram, for those out there that can afford a machine with 16 GB of ram.

I am sure there are others differnces, like heat disapation and energy consumption, although they both are around the 35 watt mark. They also differ in price point.

Then of course there is the computer age old question, which company do you like better, Intel or AMD. In the last bench mark I saw, the Intel beat the AMD, but not by much. The average user probably would never notice, I mean, what is a microsecond to a person running Microsoft Office. To take advantage of the power of the Turion, you would have to run 64 bit windows, and 64 bit applications, which there are not many around.

Answer 2

If you are asking which is better, the Core 2 Duo is. Just so no one says this, there is a Core 2 Duo for laptops, so that is not the difference.