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AMD's
Athlon XP 2600+: AMD Bites Back
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Author
: Martyn Date : 21st
August 2002
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3DVelocity wish to thank AMD
for providing this CPU for our review.
| ...Product |
Athlon
XP 2600+ |
| ...Manufacturer |
AMD |
| ...Supplier |
AMD |
| ...Price |
TBC |
Part Five: Sandra
The ever popular Sandra forms the first
part of our testing, let's take a look at what you can
expect from the Athlon XP 2600+
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Sandra
Benchmark
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Athlon
XP 2100+
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Athlon
XP 2600+
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Pentium
4 2.53GHz
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CPU Benchmark
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4786
MIPS
[Dhrystone ALU]
2397 MFLOPS [Whetstone FPU]
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5848 MIPS
[Dhrystone ALU]
2928 MFLOPS [Whetstone FPU]
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4871 MIPS
[Dhrystone ALU]
1324/3091 MFLOPS
[Whetstone FPU/SSE2]
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CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
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9506 it/s
[Integer aEMMX aSSE]
11004 it/s
[Floating Point aSSE]
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11616 it/s
[Integer aEMMX aSSE]
13467 it/s
[Floating Point aSSE]
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10070 it/s
[Integer]
12270 it/s
[Floating Point iSSE2]
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It's certainly an amazing start for this
new CPU, the P4 performance levels are smashed thanks
mainly to the XP's superior Arithmetic and Logic units.
The Multimedia benchmark shows a similar trend, beating
the Pentium 4 quite resoundingly.
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Sandra
Benchmark
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Athlon
XP 2100+
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Athlon
XP 2600+
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Pentium
4 2.53GHz
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Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
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2030 MB/s
[Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]
1953 MB/s
[Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]
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2012 MB/s
[Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]
1923 MB/s
[Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE]
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2797MB/s
[Int Buffered iSSE2]
2799MB/s
[Float Buffered iSSE2]
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Strangely, no matter how many times we
ran the test, the new CPU couldn't outpace the older
2100+. Although this isn't that important when evaluating
actual CPU performance it's nevertheless and interesting
quirk which we may well investigate at a later date.
Needless to say the Rambus based P4 system was far quicker
again which is to be expected.
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