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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."


META BENCH

OVERALL

AMD ATHLON XP 32003337
AMD ATHLON XP 25002810 (-16%)
AMD SEMPRON 22002331 (-30%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "Meta Bench is a pure CPU benchmark and the Athlon XP 3200 beats the Athlon XP 2500 by 16% and Sempron 2200 by 30%."

REALSTORM 2004

OVERALL

AMD ATHLON XP 32003927
AMD ATHLON XP 25003373 (-14%)
AMD SEMPRON 22002857 (-27%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "Realstorm is another benchmark which likes high clockspeed and the Athlon XP 3200 beats the Athlon XP 2500 by 15% and the Sempron 2200 by 27%."

SCIENCE MARK 2

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER)

AMD ATHLON XP 320075
AMD ATHLON XP 250092 (-23%)
AMD SEMPRON 2200118 (-57%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "Science Mark 2 favours processors with a high clockspeed and high level2 cache. The Athlon XP 3200 beats the Athlon XP 2500 by 23% and the Sempron 2200 by a massive 57%."

KRIBI BENCH

OFFICE

AMD ATHLON XP 320019
AMD ATHLON XP 250016 (-14%)
AMD SEMPRON 220012 (-35%)

JET SHADOW

AMD ATHLON XP 320020
AMD ATHLON XP 250016 (-17%)
AMD SEMPRON 220011 (-40%)

SPONGE

AMD ATHLON XP 320011
AMD ATHLON XP 25008 (-16%)
AMD SEMPRON 22006 (-34%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "Kribi Bench is like Science Mark 2 so it was no surprise that the Athlon XP 3200 beat the Athlon XP 2500 by 17% and the Sempron 2200 by 40%."

NVIDIA DAWN BENCHMARK

AMD ATHLON XP 320064
AMD ATHLON XP 250060 (-6%)
AMD SEMPRON 220058 (-9%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "Nvidia Dawn is a demonstrate for Nvidia video cards showing their graphical power which explains why all of the processors deliver very good performance."

3DMARK 2005

FINAL SCORE

AMD ATHLON XP 32003041
AMD ATHLON XP 25002640 (-13%)
AMD SEMPRON 22002275 (-25%)

AMD ATHLON XP 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 2500 AMD SEMPRON 2200

COMMENT - "We are now moving towards game rather than processor performance and the Athlon XP 3200 offers 13% more game performance than the Athlon XP 2500 and 25% more game performance compared to the Sempron 2200."

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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