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Are
you eXPerienced?
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Author : Martyn
Date : 9th October 2001
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3DVelocity would like to thank AMD
and especially Theresa Zimmer for their help and courtesy in
providing this processor for review.
Part
Eleven: CPU Performance
How
well the 1.33GHz Athlon performed in Sissoft's Sandra benchmarks,
I was eager to see how the new XP 1800+ would fair.... (All
results thumbs' are clickable)
(Sandra's
CPU Benchmark)
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Sandra CPU
Benchmark
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Dhrystone
ALU
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Whetstone
FPU
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AMD Athlon
XP 1800+
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4261 MIPS
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2094
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A
flying start by the XP 1800+, needless to say it soundly beat
the reference performance of the 1.6 Intel based solution and
is surely keeping pace if not just edging past the 1.8GHz version.
A true testament to AMD's great design.
(Sandra's
CPU MM Bench)
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Sandra CPU
MM Benchmark
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Integer MMX
Enhanced
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Floating-Point
3DNow!
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AMD Athlon
XP 1800+
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8541 it/s
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9831 it/s
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The
Athlon XP's Quantispeed features had a chance to demonstrate
how effective they were in this benchmark. A great performance
one again, eclipsing both the 1.6GHz Intel chip and surpassing
the AMD Athlon 1.33GHz chip buy a sizable margin too. The new
Athlon proved what a great multimedia performer it was once
more yet I expected the floating point iterations to increase
more than they did.
(Sandra's
Memory Benchmark)
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Sandra Memory
Benchmark
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Int ALU/Ram
Bandwidth
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Float FPU/Ram
Bandwidth
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AMD Athlon
XP 1800+
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737 MB/s
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811 MB/s
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By
utilizing the AMD based chipset, some great scores were on display
here. Providing more bandwidth than every other reference chipset,
except the 800MHz Rambus based systems, the XP didn't disappoint
again. The figures are set to increase even further very soon
with the release of VIA's KT266A based chipset. A mouth watering
prospect indeed...
Part
Twelve: Further multimedia Testing
I
also needed to see how good this chip could be when DVD playback
was a chief concern. Running the full benchmark of Video 2000
should help determine how good this chip is...
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Video 2000
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Features
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Quality
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Performance
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Overall Score
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AMD Athlon
XP 1800+
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600
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1096
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1060
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2756
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Utilizing
a XP 1800+ for DVD playback produces some stunning results.
I frequently watch DVD movies on my PC and I could notice the
difference as soon as the films first started playing. Everything
seemed just that tad bit smoother and I experienced no problems
at all. The CPU and the Radeon combined to produce a great Video2000
result and you will see the effects very clearly if DVD playback
is of a high level of importance to you.
An
ever increasing factor of importance these days seems to be
how well the CPU overclocks. Let's see what the XP 1800+ has
in store for us as we move toward Page Seven...
Page Seven: Overclocking Results
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