AMD AthlonXP 2500+ 333FSB Barton CPU - Testing and Benchmarks

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Testing and Benchmarks

System

1. ABIT NF7-S (16 Bios, nVidia 2.03 drivers)
2. AMD XP 2100+ (Thoroughbred 'B' AIUHB 0301)
3. AMD XP 2500+ (Barton)
4. 512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500 (2x256 Dual Channel)
5. ATI 9700Pro (Catalyst 321, default settings)
6. Seagate 120GB SATA HDD 
7. MCX 462+ w/ Sunon 80mm fan
8. Antec True Blue 480W PSU 
9. Windows XP Pro (SP1, DX 9.0a)

Benchmarks:

1. SiSoft Sandra Pro 2003 (2003.1.9.26)
2. PCMark 2002 Pro
3. 3DMark 2003 Pro
4. Quake 3 (DEMO001)
5. Comanche 4
6. [H] UT23K Benchmark
7. AquaMark
8. PiFast  

 

System

1. ABIT NF7-S (16 Bios, nVidia 2.03 drivers)
2. AMD XP 2100+ (Thoroughbred 'B' AIUHB 0301)
3. AMD XP 2500+ (Barton)
4. 512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500 (2x256 Dual Channel)
5. ATI 9700Pro (Catalyst 321, default settings)
6. Seagate 120GB SATA HDD 
7. MCX 462+ w/ Sunon 80mm fan
8. Antec True Blue 480W PSU 
9. Windows XP Pro (SP1, DX 9.0a)

Benchmarks:

1. SiSoft Sandra Pro 2003 (2003.1.9.26)
2. PCMark 2002 Pro
3. 3DMark 2003 Pro
4. Quake 3 (DEMO001)
5. Comanche 4
6. [H] UT23K Benchmark
7. AquaMark
8. PiFast  

 

The CPU's will be clocked the same (11x166) with the memory running in sync (333 FSB) at 2-2-2-6. Theoretically we should only see what improvement the added L2 cache on the Barton brings to the table.

SiSoft Sandra

We'll start with the trusted Sandra CPU benchmarks. While still a synthetic benchmark, it is still a good tool to see how different configurations affect the performance of your computer.

CPU ARITHMETIC 

 

We can begin to see that in Sandra's world, there is not too much of a performance gain running the extra L2 cache on the Barton.

CPU MULTIMEDIA 

 

Again, the extra L2 cache doesn't offer much improvement as far as Sandra is concerned.

PCMARK 2002

PCMark 2002 is another synthetic benchmark that measures the performance of various subsystems on your computer.

 

Again we see the the extra L2 not helping much. In the memory scores, we did see a nice jump. Probably due to the CPU not having to access the memory controller as much with the extra L2.

3DMARK03

Still not seeing a marked improvement with the L2...

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