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Ecco pubblicati prontamente i benchmarks dell'Athlon XP 2000+ contro il nuovo P4N 2GHz su Van's Hardware. Personalmente, questa è la recensione più tecnica che ho potuto vedere fino ad ora: sono stati eseguiti test sulla latenza della memoria e sulla bandwidth con un dataset di grandezza variabile.
Come si può notare, in quasi tutti i test l'Athlon ne esce vincitore.

The huge difference between the Athlon XP and Athlon is likely due to the XP's hardware data prefetch engine. Note that the Pentium 4 falls almost exactly between the Athlon XP and the Athlon. Also note that the Epox motherboard beats the Asus product once again.
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The results we have looked at overwhelmingly underscore the Athlon XP's superiority on a broad range of tasks. Even in BAPCo's SysMark2001, the Athlon XP dominates its Intel rival and slips by reported scores for the 2.2GHz P4. Although there are tasks where the Pentium 4 may pull ahead -- namely those that stress raw bandwidth or possess SSE2 optimizations -- by and large the Athlon XP will come out on top much more often than not.