Ever since AMD released their Athlon processors, they have become Intels most fearsome competitor in the CPU market. Starting with the clock speed race in back in 1999 with the release of the Athlon, ending somewhere in 2001. AMD and Intel went back and forth raising the clock speeds of their processors. At the time Intel processors could still out-perform AMDs at identical clock speeds but when it came to price versus performance, AMD won hands down. With equally priced CPU from both companies, that $200 Athlon out performed that $200 Pentium. But, those days of the clock war are over.

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