AMD ATHLON XP 2500 REVIEW

COMMENT - "Using SiSoftware Sandra 2004 CPU test the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by an impressive 21%."

COMMENT - "Using SiSoftware Sandra 2004 Multi-Media test the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by a good 19%."

COMMENT - "Using SiSoftware Sandra 2004 CPU test the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by an impressive 19%. However this is still 17% short of what the memory is able to achieve."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

3DMARK 2001 SE

1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth

3DMARK 2003

1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

COMMENT - "Using Quake 3 Arena the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by a very impressive 22%. Using Unreal Tournament 2003 the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by between 13% - 25%."

CONCLUSION - "The Athlon XP 2500 delivered a nice performance increase over the Athlon XP 1700 with the synthetic benchmarks. The Quake3 result was especially impressive and the Athlon XP 2500 delivered a huge 49 extra frames per second. However the video card used for this review the GeForce 5200 was unable to deliver a high level of performance with UT2003 but still managed an extra 14fps with the botmatch demo. 3dmark 2001 showed a large increase of 2032 points which is very impressive and 3dmark 2003 increased by 105 points. The reason 3dmark 2003 didn't increase by much is because it tests the video card."