Natuurlijk heeft ook onze vriend Anand een review over de AMD Athlon getikt. Anand heeft een flinke emmer benchmarks gedraaid, waarmee hij niet alleen de Athlon en PII/PIII vergelijkt, maar ook nog eens de performance verschillen bij gebruik van een TNT2, Voodoo3 of G400 mee neemt! Hier heb je een hap uit z'n conclusie:
I don't have to give you a conclusion here, the benchmarks speak for themselves, the Athlon is the fastest desktop x86 processor on the market. It would take at least a 700MHz Pentium III to start to beat AMD's Athlon, but even if Intel does release a Pentium III 700 ahead of schedule, the price of a lower clocked but faster Athlon will still be lower than a 700MHz Pentium III. There is nothing in Intel's current family of processors that can match the performance of the Athlon, even the forthcoming Coppermine will have trouble competing against AMD's latest flagship. [...] Luckily the news seems to be good so far, yields on the Athlon aren't great, but they're not poor. Assuming AMD can deliver on the demand for the Athlon (OEMs will start advertising Athlon based systems starting August 16, 1999), the next question is who will make the motherboards? Until recently, there haven't been many decent quality boards for non-Intel platforms, the Super7 market is the perfect example of that. Our first in lab experiences with Athlon boards haven't been pleasant and we can only hope that the right motherboard manufacturers will step up and support the Athlon.
De review met véél benchmarks vind je hier.
