AMD ATHLON XP 2500 REVIEW
"AMD Athlon XP 2500 tested against the Athlon XP 1700 as requested by a reader. Software was:- 3dmark 2001 se, 3dmark 2003, Sis Sandra 2002, Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament 2003."

| PROCESSOR TYPE |
TYPE |
CLOCK SPEED |
L2 CACHE |
BUS SPEED |
PRICE |
| ATHLON XP1700 |
THOROUGHBRED B |
1.47Ghz |
256K |
266Mhz |
$45 (£47) |
| ATHLON XP2500 |
BARTON |
1.83Ghz |
512K |
333Mhz |
$86 (£63) |
| PROCESSOR TYPE |
TYPE |
CLOCK SPEED |
L2 CACHE |
BUS SPEED |
PRICE |
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2004
PROCESSOR - ALU DHRYSTONE
 | 4028 |
 | 5039 |
PROCESSOR - FPU WHETSTONE
 | 2022 |
 | 2528 |
ATHLON XP 1700 ATHLON XP 2500
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COMMENT - "Using SiSoftware Sandra 2004 CPU test the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by an impressive 21%."
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SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2004
 | 8017 |
 | 10025 |
MULTI-MEDIA - FLOATING POINT
 | 9267 |
 | 11591 |
ATHLON XP 1700 ATHLON XP 2500
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COMMENT - "Using SiSoftware Sandra 2004 Multi-Media test the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by a good 19%."
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SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2004
 | 2128 |
 | 2672 |
MEMORY BANDWIDTH - INTEGER
 | 1821 |
 | 2225 |
MEMORY BANDWIDTH - FLOATING POINT
 | 1699 |
 | 2088 |
ATHLON XP 1700 ATHLON XP 2500
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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."
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3DMARK BENCHMARK
 | 8265 |
 | 10297 |
 | 2163 |
 | 2268 |
ATHLON XP 1700 ATHLON XP 2500
COMMENT - "Using 3dmark 2001 SE the Athlon XP 2500 outperformed the Athlon XP 1700 by an impressive 20% and using 3dmark 2003 which is more of a video card benchmark the Athlon XP 2500 still beat the Athlon XP 1700 by 5%."
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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
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GAMES SOFTWARE
 | 184 |
 | 233 |
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 (FLYBY)
 | 110 |
 | 126 |
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 (BOTMATCH)
 | 44 |
 | 58 |
ATHLON XP 1700 ATHLON XP 2500
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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%."
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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."
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