AthlonXP 2600+ 333FSB CPU - Benchmarks
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Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD AthlonXP 2600+ 333 FSB Review |
Price: | USD$286 |
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Reviewed By: | Jim "Justi" Miller |
Review Date: | February 2003 |
AMD AthlonXP 2600+ 333 FSB Review
Benchmarks Continued....
SiSoft Sandra CPU Multimedia Bench:
Indeed a trend has formed. The 2600+ with it's 166Mhz front side bus is again showing its prowess over the P4.
PiFast Pi Calculating Benchmark:
This benchmark actually requires a little bit of explanation. I consider this to be the most telling benchmark we are showing you today. Pifast measures basically the CPU's raw performance and nothing else. Pifast does exactly what it says it does, it calculates Pi. Obviously, the lower the time the better the score. We used the options as laid out below:
Program : PiFast version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon
Computation of 10000000 digits of Pi
Method used : Chudnovsky
Size of FFT : 1024 K
Physical memory used : ~ 61355 K
Disk memory used : ~ 0.00 Meg
Here are the results:
Now these results surprised me a bit. Considering the nature of this benchmark and the fact that the P4 is clocked a lot higher (over 500Mhz overclocked), I really thought the P4 would hold a slight edge. I was wrong, the 2600+ again won out, though by a very negligible difference at the overclocked speeds.
Futuremarks 3dMark2001SE (Build 330):
Ah, 3dMark, where we earn our bragging rights on a daily basis in this community. To do this test we did nothing more than install the 41.09 drivers and leave everything default. We're capable of tweaking this system with the 2600+ overclocked and the video card tweaked and running around 15k 3dMarks. For the purpose of this review we left everything default on the video card because we're taking a look solely at the CPU performance and what difference it will or will not make..
While we still see the increased performance from the AthlonXP 2600+, it isn't near as significant as we've expected. Considering the past benchmarks where the 2600 held a significant edge, the 2600+ at default pulled out only a modest increase over the P4. While we could interpret a lot from this I am guessing it's a simple case of the CPU not being the bottleneck, but the video card. All 4 CPU's in this test are stout to say the least and they appear to need a bit more than the Ti4200 has to offer in order to stretch their legs.
Let's wrap this thing up on page 4 with some words about overclocking this chip and the conclusion...
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