AMD has unveiled the new AthlonXP CPU this morning with reviews galore showing up at all the regular hardware websites you'd expect. The AthlonXP 1800 is actually a 1.53GHz chip but AMD is calling it the 1800 since that's the equivalent speed they claim it would be if the chip was based off the old T-Bird core. (According to the HOCP article) Wacky marketing aside the chip is fast. Beating the Intel 2Ghz chips by a fair amount in most all benchmarks except Quake3. Here's some quick benchmark comparisons courtesy of that same HOCP article:
| CPU | 3DMark | 3DWinbench |
| Athlon 1.4 | 7679 | 3.14 |
| Pentium 2GHz | 7701 | 3.14 |
| AthlonXP 1800 | 8024 | 3.45 |
It's also interesting to note that in the AnandTech article the AthlonXP performed better than the P4 in the Return To Wolfenstein benchmark which Anand claims is more CPU bound then the typical Quake3 demos. (RTCW uses the Q3 engine) Well here's the rest of the articles: HardOCP , Tech-Report , AnandTech , OCPrices , Sourcemagazine , AMDMB
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