The AMD 64 2000+ (clocked at 1 GHz) has been found to rip the raved-about Atom processor by Intel, (clocked at 1.6 GHz), beating Intel in power and processing benchmarks. The stellar performance is mostly accredited to the very well designed K8 architecture.

AMD seems to be getting back on track, after having lost market share to Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidias’s graphics cards. AMD now has the HD 4870 X2, which was deemed the “world’s fastest graphics card”. Go AMD!

Specs:

Intel vs. AMD
CPU Atom Athlon 64
Power 4 Watts 8 Watts
Transistors 47 mm 122 mm
Size 24.18 mm² 77.2 mm²
Core Voltage 1.088 V 0.900 V

via Tom’s Hardware