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Ace's Hardware ha pubblicato un interessante articolo dove vengono messe a confronto diverse piattaforme:

Dual Athlon MP 2000+

* ASUS A7M266-D Bios version 1.005 * MSI K7 Master-L Bios version 1.1 * Tyan Tiger MPX Bios version 1.01 * Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW Bios version 2/21/2002 * 512 MB Samsung ECC buffered PC2100 DDR SDRAM CAS2

Duron 1300, Athlon 1400, XP 2000+, XP 2100+

* ASUS A7V266-E (VIA KT266A) bios version 1.006 * 512 MB Corsair PC2700 XMS (DDR-RAM) CAS 2 (2x256 MB)

2 GHz Pentium 4 (Willamette), 2A GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood), and 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood)

* ASUS P4T-E (i850 RDRAM chipset) bios version 1.005 * 512 MB Corsair RDRAM-45 (4x128 MB)

I test condotti sono tanti ed i sistemi risultano complessivamente allineati.
Qua sotto vi riporto le conclusioni.

Conclusion Right now the Athlon MP performs just as well as the Pentium 4 Northwood, which has 128 KB more cache. Considering the very high prices of a Xeon motherboard and dual Xeon configuration, the Athlon MP is a very cost effective, high performance solution for a workstation or low-end server. The Athlon MP lacks some cache to be a great server CPU and outperform Intel's offering by a wider margin, but the Athlon architecture has great potential. Therefore, if AMD can live up to their promises, the Hammer family could - with proper OEM support - will prove to be a fierce competitor in the server market. The reason why we say this, is that the Hammer CPU strongly improves the weak points of the Athlon MP: the performance of memory subsystem, the branch predictor, and most importantly, the features that improve manageability and reliability (Chipkill, ECC, Heatspreader, Thermal diode support, etc.). Another interesting observation is that there is no "best" workstation processor overall. The price is too high compared to the Athlon XP 2100+, but Intel's 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 is the fastest single processor for 3D rendering (SSE-2 optimized software like 3DS Max, Maya, and Lightwave), video streaming, and software rendering. The high clockspeed and extra cache cannot hide the relatively slow FP unit, as shown by the FEA benchmark, where the Athlon XP 2100+ is by far the fastest processor.