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.

 

 

SiSoft Sandra :

The universally known and loved SiSoft Sandra was used to take a more CPU focused look at the performance.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Arithmetic:

Here we see a boost of approximately 9.5% over the 1800+ results, a result that belies the meager 140MHz advantage it has over it.

SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia :

Here again we see around 9% gain on the floating point results and not much less on the integer scores. The Palomino core is obviously going to scale well as its speed rises, though of course AMD may up the ante next round with an fsb hike.

POV-Ray :

Results expressed in seconds - Lower is better

Because POV-Ray is almost entirely CPU dependent, it gives a pretty fair reflection of what's on offer. The XP2000+ was able to shave an impressive 33 seconds off the total render time when compared to the 1800+, and just as a yardstick, the Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz running on an i845 (SDR) took 609 seconds to render the same scene at the same settings.

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