AMD Athlon XP 2600/2400+ - Introducing Thoroughbred Revision B

Content Creation Performance

You may have noticed that SYSMark 2002 is absent from our performance comparison in this review; we're currently investigating some issues with the benchmark that we will be reporting on publicly shortly. In the meantime, we have provided Content Creation Winstone 2002 to fill the void.

Content Creation Performance - CC Winstone 2002 Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) 42.3 41.1 39.7 39.5 38.6 37.5 37.3 35.4 35.4 34.6 33.7 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 34 | 42 | 51

In most content creation applications, the Pentium 4 has been able to outpace the Athlon XP significantly; we see the trend continue here with the Pentium 4 2.53GHz running around 10% faster than the XP 2600+.