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Anche Tom's Hardware ha pubblicato la sua recensione "Athlon XP 2000+ vs P4N". Una nota positiva riguarda la cpu AMD: è stato eseguito un overclock a 1850MHz (equivalente ad un Athlon XP 2300+) mentre il processore Intel non è stato toccato, il contrario di quello fatto dagli altri siti.
I benchmark riportano la vittoria del nuovo nato di casa Intel e come detto precedentemente, durerà finché AMD non introdurrà il core Thorougbred, in grado di poter combattere ad armi pari.

In any case, one thing is visible: in the majority of performance tests, the new Pentium 4/2200 is ahead. After all, the top AMD processor has to make do with 1666 MHz, while its archenemy steps in with 2200 MHz. A closer look at the comprehensive benchmarks reveals that in Office performance as well as Linux Kernel compiling, the Athlon XP still takes the lead, despite its 32% clock speed disadvantage!

In principle, the technical concepts of AMD and Intel can only be compared in the practical tests. As always, it can be said that the Palomino core of the AMD Athlon XP is able to process more commands at the same time, while Intel's Pentium 4 design concentrates primarily on high clock speed. From a critical point of view, however, while AMD has already used the 0.18 micron process to its fullest and is now turning its efforts to 0.13 micron, this step has already been completed by Intel. In addition, Intel has increased the L2-Cache from 256 KB (Willamette core) to 512 KB (Northwood core).