AMD's Athlon XP 2600+: AMD Bites Back

Author : Martyn Date : 21st August 2002

...Product	Athlon XP 2600+
...Manufacturer	AMD
...Supplier	AMD
...Price	TBC

 

 

 

Part Four: The Test Setup

 

Intel Test Bed: -

Intel's 2.53GHz Pentium 4
Abit's TH7II [i850]
4 x Kingston 128MB PC800 RIMMS
Albatron's Geforce 4 Ti 4600 (28.32 Det)
IBM's 75GXP ATA 100
550w Intel/AMD Approved PSU.

AMD Test Bed:-

AMD's Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz), AMD's 2600+ (2.13GHz)
Epox's 8K3a+ [VIA KT333 CE]
Abit's AT7 MAX [VIA KT333 CE]
2 x TwinMos PC2700 DDR 256MB
Albatron's Geforce 4 Ti 4600 (28.32 Det)
IBM's 75GXP ATA 100
550w Intel/AMD Approved PSU.

Windows XP Pro.

Benchmarks

Notes:

Although some would suggest a P4 DDR based setup would be 'fairer' what we hope to show is the top performance offered by both companies, if the CPU's are the fastest we feel the whole system should represent the best available and right now Rambus still holds a big lead over DDR in terms of benchmark scores. This should clearly be taken into consideration when evaluating the results.

Also because of the lateness of our sample two different mainboards are used, this will surely affect memory scores slightly although all comparable settings were used.

 

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