AMD's Thoroughbred leaves the starting gate

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21 June 2002 03:00 PM
Tags: rambus, thoroughbred, ddr, processor, intel, amd, sdram, athlon xp

Workstation performance

  Athlon XP/2200+
Introduction
How we tested
Application performance
Encoding performance
Rendering performance
Internet Performance
Gaming performance
Workstation performance
Conclusions

The brand-new OpenGL benchmark Viewperf 7 puts the AMD processors ahead of Intel's chips. The difference in performance is particularly marked in the Data Explorer (DX) test. Here the Athlon XP/2200+ is nearly twice as fast as the Pentium 4/2200 with DDR266 memory.




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