Bij GamePC is een review verschenen over de nieuwste telg van de Athlon XP familie, de AMD Athlon XP 2000+. Deze processor is, afgezien van de clocksnelheid, gelijk aan de oudere XP modellen. Met een clocksnelheid van 1,67GHz is de Athlon XP 2000+ 67MHz sneller dan een Athlon XP 1900+. Geen schokkend verschil, maar groot genoeg om de afstand tussen de 2,0GHz Pentium 4 en de Athlon XP nog groter te maken. Van de twaalf gedraaide benchmarks wint de Athlon XP 2000+ er negen. Daarom rolt er, niet geheel verrassend, uit dit alles enkele lovende woorden voor de Athlon XP:
If there was any doubt in your mind about which company makes the fastest CPU in the business, there shouldn't be anymore. AMD is now rounding out the 2001 year with an absolutely amazing CPU, which rips apart the Pentium 4 in nearly every benchmark we threw at it. While the 1.67 GHz (2000+) processor doesn't have any technological advances compared to previous Athlon XP processors, its extra clock speed gives it a nice extra boost to show the Pentium 4 who's the boss.
The current 0.18-micron Palomino design still has some fight left in it as well. As we've seen in our overclocking tests, even today's chips are physically able to run at 1.8 GHz with slightly better cooling. As AMD's manufacturing processes continue to get better, it will be very likely that AMD releases two to three more speed revisions of the current Athlon XP design before finally transitioning to their 0.13 micron designs.
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