AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600 or Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 - What's Better?

Question

There are so many arguments and opinions on whether AMD or Intel processors are better?

Here we have two similar processors - but one is the... AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600... The other is the... Intel Core 2 Duo E6400...

So which is the better one... considering Speed, Power Consumption, Noise Levels, Graphics and overall Performance etc etc?

Who's the Winner?

Answer 1

Read up here:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=1

Answer 2

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400

Answer 3

Benchmarks rate the AMD4600 & the Intel E6400 almost equal when all tests are considered.

This video encoding shows them equal :
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=467&chart=183

This WinRAR shows the E6400 ahead ;
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=467&chart=175

This SiSoftware Sandra shows the AMD 4600+ way ahead of Intel 6400+:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=467&chart=162

CONCLUSION :
Hard to pick a true winner between these 2 excellent processors.

Go for the best package deal.
AMD is a better bang for buck.

Price performance benchmark rates the AMD 4600 way way better than the E6400:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=467&chart=195

regards,
Philip T

Answer 4

get the core 2 duo. they are faster than AMD athlon 64 X2 5200+.
www.tomshardware.com has CPU charts where they test all of the processors and core 2 won in most all of them. i have been looking at the same one and hands-down recommend it.

Answer 5

people say core 2 duo is faster, but it's not, i have AMD and it's mcuh faster