AMD Athlon XP 2000+, A Virtual Milestone!

Author : Wayne Date : 7th January 2002

3DVelocity would like to thank AMD and especially Theresa Zimmer for their help and courtesy in providing this processor for review.

 

 

CPU Performance :

The test setup for the following benchmarks was as follows :

Epox 8KHA+ motherboard
256MB PC2100 Kingmax DDR SDRAM
Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce 3 Ti500 Graphics (22.50 Detonators)
40GB ATA-100 HDD
Creative Labs Audigy Sound
Windows XP Pro O/S

The motherboard system performance parameters were set to "Turbo" throughout testing. AGP aperture was 128MB. No other performance enhancement settings were used.

And let's also take a look at the two contenders. Because the XP1900+ was released just before Christmas, I've compared against the 1800+ as this is what most enthusiasts will probably be running at this stage.

Cpu Vendor	AuthenticAMD		CPU Vendor	AuthenticAMD
CPU Name	AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ (Palomino)		CPU Name	AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ (Palomino)
Internal Name String	AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+		Internal Name String	AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Family / Model / Stepping	6 6 2		Family / Model / Stepping	6 6 2
CPU Clock	1670.4 MHz		CPU Clock	1536.9 MHz
Clock multiplier	x 12.5		Clock multiplier	x 11.5
Front Side Bus Frequency	133.6 MHz (DDR)		Front Side Bus Frequency	133.6 MHz (DDR)
Package	Socket A		Package	Socket A
Technology	0.18µ		Technology	0.18µ
VCC 0	1.744 volts		VCC 0	1.776 volts
IO_VOLTAGE	1.520 volts		IO_VOLTAGE	1.520 volts
L1 Data Cache	64 Kbytes, 2-way set associative, 64 bytes line size		L1 Data Cache	64 Kbytes, 2-way set associative, 64 bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache	64 Kbytes, 2-way set associative, 64 bytes line size		L1 Instruction Cache	64 Kbytes, 2-way set associative, 64 bytes line size
L2 Cache	256 Kbytes, 16-way set associative, 64 bytes line size		L2 Cache	256 Kbytes, 16-way set associative, 64 bytes line size
L2 Frequency	1670.4 MHz		L2 Frequency	1536.9 MHz
L2/CPU ratio	1/1		L2/CPU ratio	1/1
L2 Location	On Chip		L2 Location	On Chip
L2 ECC Check	enabled		L2 ECC Check	enabled
L2 Data Prefetch Logic	yes		L2 Data Prefetch Logic	yes
L2 Bus Width	64 bits		L2 Bus Width	64 bits
Supported Instructions Sets	MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE		Supported Instructions Sets	MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
OS supports SSE	yes		OS supports SSE	yes
OS handles SSE exceptions	yes		OS handles SSE exceptions	yes
Motherboard manufacturer	Epox		Motherboard manufacturer	Epox
Motherboard model	VT8366-8233,		Motherboard model	VT8366-8233,
BIOS vendor	Award Software International, Inc.		BIOS vendor	Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS revision	6.00 PG		BIOS revision	6.00 PG

 

Well, that's the formalities out of the way, let's look at some numbers.

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