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As promised, here is part two of our review of the AMD Athlon XP 2000+. In this article we will focus on benchmark results. The following link will take you to Part 1 where we discuss in detail the dramatic differences between AMD and Intel processor architectures.
As is readily apparent, WME makes the difference between the Athlon XP winning or losing the Internet Content Creation test.
Aside from these questionable issues, SysMark2001 is simply a bad benchmark. For one, it obfuscates even further than SysMark2000 what is actually being tested. SysMark2001 has become simply a black box test where the user pushes a button and the program later spits out three meaningless numbers
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Description of Product
As you can see in the results table that the AMD one the Intel Pentium procceror |
Description of Product
The price of these amazing processors depends on which one you will buy but all i can tell you is that AMD is much cheaper thant the Intel Pentium
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Higher the better
The Intel Pentium 4 performs impressively on this test with significantly higher bandwidth than the Athlon XP. However, the Athlon XP data series in red enjoys a simple technique called "block prefetching" which significantly closes with gap with the P4. We will discuss block prefetching in detail in an upcoming article.
Although the bandwidth of the Pentium 4 is impressive in the graph above, this chip's bandwidth performance is not all cut and dry. By simply adding a single 32-bit integer multiplication to the assignment statement, the P4's throughput crashes.
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Higher the better
Not only does the P4's bandwidth crash, but it falls to such low levels that the cache subsystem is totally neutralized. Although the Pentium 4 has great bandwidth potential, the Athlon XP is a much better balanced solution.
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Higher the better
The Athlon XP completely dominates this test. Here, the Pentium 4's deep pipeline is a severe hindrance. Note, however, the interesting quirk where the Athlon XP 1900+ outperforms the Athlon XP 2000+ in main memory. The Epox motherboard appears to have a faster memory subsystem than the Asus board used in the reference system.
Although the Athlon XP is king of this test by large margins, the Athlon was not. Below is a version of the same test that uses an eight megabyte dataset. In this case, the impact of the probability that two assignments would fall within cache are minimized.
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Shotter is better
The huge difference between the Athlon XP and Athlon is likely due to the XP's hardware data prefetch engine. Note that the Pentium 4 falls almost exactly between the Athlon XP and the Athlon. Also note that the Epox motherboard beats the Asus product once again.
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longer is better
It is startling how closely Dr. Tim Wilkens' Science Mark, a high end floating point intensive scientific computational benchmark, paces CPUMark99. In both tests, the Athlon XP easily trumps the Pentium 4.
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AMD winnes again
as you have seen in the results AMD is the king of prcessors.
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