Re:Stick with PPC (Score 1)

Okay, I'm confused. I've also heard this (that RISC chips did less per instruction, but with more instructions/second) and CISC chips did more per instruction, but with fewer. The PPC is a RISC chip through and through, and the x86 and clones are CISC at least at the instruction level. And the new x86 chips have MANY more cycles/second than the PPC's right now. But I've heard it chanted over and over among fans of the PPC that a PPC, at the same Mhz rating is faster than the x86 (although nobody is claiming anymore that current PPC chips are faster than current x86 chips, because of the huge discrepency between clock speeds). How can this follow from the above, if the PPC does less per instruction?

Erik