Accelenation tested the 3.2GHz model against an Athlon 64 3200+, and the 3GHz model against a 3GHz Pentium 4 3.0C (Northwood).
Quote from the review:
“To allow the Pentium 4 to achieve higher clock rates, Intel had to increase the length of the pipeline. On the Prescott the pipeline has been extended from 20 stages to 30 stages. This would normally decrease the IPC (Instructions Per Cycle) of the processor, but Intel has other tricks up their sleeve.”
