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AMD ATHLON XP 3200, AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AND AMD SEMPRON 2200 REVIEW

"This AMD Athlon XP 3200 review also features the AMD Athlon XP 2500 and AMD Sempron 2200. In this review we will be featuring numerous benchmarks such as 3dmark 2005, Nvidia Dawn, Half Life 2, Doom 3, Tribes Vengeance, Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War, Xpand Rally, Scrapland, Unreal Tournament 2004, Serious Sam and Quake 3 Arena."

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AND ATHLON 2500

"The AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 features a seventh-generation microarchitecture with an integrated, exclusive L2 cache, which supports the growing processor and system bandwidth requirements of emerging software, graphics, I/O, and memory technologies. The high-speed execution core of the AMD Athlon XP processor model 10 includes multiple x86 instruction decoders, a dual-ported 128-Kbyte split level-one (L1) cache, an exclusive 512-Kbyte L2 cache, three independent integer pipelines, three address calculation pipelines, and a superscalar, fully pipelined, out-of-order, three-way floating-point engine. The floating-point engine is capable of delivering outstanding performance on numerically complex applications."

AMD SEMPRON 2200

"The AMD Sempron processor model 10 delivers the integer, floating-point, and 3D multimedia performance for highly demanding applications running on x86 system platforms. The AMD Sempron processor model 10 delivers compelling performance for cutting-edge software applications that include high-speed Internet capability, digital content creation, digital photo editing, digital video, image compression, video encoding for streaming over the Internet, soft DVD, commercial 3D modeling, workstation-class computer-aided design (CAD), commercial desktop publishing, and speech recognition. The AMD Sempron processor model 10 also offers the scalability and reliability that IT managers and business users require for enterprise computing."


CPU BENCH 2003

CPU ALU

AMD ATHLON XP 32005651
AMD ATHLON XP 25004691 (-17%)
AMD SEMPRON 22003635 (-36%)

CPU FPU

AMD ATHLON XP 32004682
AMD ATHLON XP 25004080 (-13%)
AMD SEMPRON 22003801 (-19%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "In this CPU Bench 2003 benchmark the Athlon XP 3200 once again clearly beats the Athlon XP 2500 by 17% and the Sempron 2200 by 36% when using CPU ALU. The Athlon XP 3200 performs slightly slower when using the CPU FPU but still beats the Athlon XP 2500 by 13% and the Sempron 2200 by 19%."

CPU BENCH 2003

FPU SINGLE PRECISION

AMD ATHLON XP 32006020
AMD ATHLON XP 25004996 (-18%)
AMD SEMPRON 22004050 (-33%)

FPU DOUBLE PRECISION

AMD ATHLON XP 32005277
AMD ATHLON XP 25004381 (-17%)
AMD SEMPRON 22003551 (-33%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "The FPU Single and Double Precision tests favour a high clockspeed so it was no surprise that the Athlon XP 3200 is ahead of the Athlon XP 2500 by 18% and the Sempron 2200 by 33%."

CPU BENCH 2003

RAM SIMD ALU BANDWIDTH

AMD ATHLON XP 32002553
AMD ATHLON XP 25002257 (-12%)
AMD SEMPRON 22002138 (-16%)

RAM SIMD FPU BANDWIDTH

AMD ATHLON XP 3200
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 (-12%)
AMD SEMPRON 2200 (-17%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "We are now testing memory performance so clockspeed doesn't effect the results too much but the FSB will effect the score. This is why the Athlon XP 3200 outperforms the Athlon XP 2500 by 12% and the Sempron 2200 by 16%. The Athlon XP 2500 has a narrow victory over the Sempron 2200 of only 6%."

CPU BENCH 2003

SW RAYTRACING BENCHMARK

AMD ATHLON XP 32002806
AMD ATHLON XP 25002335 (-17%)
AMD SEMPRON 22001890 (-33%)

D3D SW RENDERING

AMD ATHLON XP 32002417
AMD ATHLON XP 25002023 (-16%)
AMD SEMPRON 22001628 (-33%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "We are now using the benchmarks which really favour the clockspeed and the Athlon XP 3200 outperforms the Athlon XP 2500 by 17% and the Sempron 2200 by 33%. I wouldn't recomment using the Sempron 2200 for any Raytracing or similar uses."

INDEX
PAGE 1 - INTRODUCTION, SYSTEM INFORMATION AND SISOFTWARE SANDRA
PAGE 2 - CPU BENCH 2003
PAGE 3 - META BENCH, SCIENCE MARK, NVIDIA DAWN AND 3DMARK 2005
PAGE 4 - HALF LIFE 2, DOOM 3, TRIBES VENGEANCE AND DAWN OF WAR
PAGE 5 - XPAND RALLY, SCRAPLAND, UT2004, QUAKE3 AND CONCLUSION

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