AMD heeft vandaag snellere versies van de Athlon MP processor met kloksnelheden van 1,53GHz, 1,47GHz en 1,4GHz geïntroduceerd . De release van de drie hogere speed grades betekent tevens de invoering van de QuantiSpeed Model-rating voor de Athlon MP. De nummering is gelijk aan de Athlon XP, namelijk 1800+ voor de Athlon MP 1,53GHz, 1600+ voor de 1,4GHz en 1500+ voor de 1,33GHz. De nieuwe Athlon MP's hebben een prijs van respectievelijk $302, $210 en $180 bij levering in aantallen van 1000 stuks:
AMD today introduced its newest processors for multiprocessing servers and workstations, the high-performance AMD Athlon™ MP processors 1800+, 1600+ and 1500+. The new AMD Athlon MP processors, which feature patented QuantiSpeed™ architecture and AMD’s Smart MP technology, deliver breakthrough application performance versus competitive processors on single and dual-processor platforms.[...] Benchmarks for single and dual processor-based platforms powered by AMD Athlon MP processors 1800+, 1600+ and 1500+ show distinct performance advantages over similarly-configured single and dual processor-based platforms powered by competitive processors operating at certain higher frequencies. For example, a workstation based on a dual 1.53GHz AMD Athlon MP processor 1800+ outperforms a similarly-configured workstation based on a dual 1.7GHz Intel Xeon processor by up to 23 percent on various application benchmarks, such as High-end Microstation, SoftImage XSI and Alias Wavefront/Maya.
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