| Someone else will probably answer this better- but you are comparing apples with pairs.The AMD cpu can't use all that bandwidth (plus you are not allowing for memory efficiency it doesn't run at 100%).
AMD cpus shift data slower but do more with it than P4s. P4s have got to have high memory bandwidth to make up for this. So the whole structure of the MB chipset etc is tailored for them to do this. Likewise the various chipsets for AMD CPUs match the abilities of the CPU.
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