Milo, thanks for the link.
I notice that in the first test, the integer one, the MP does a lot better, no doubt due to the increased TLB size and prefetching.
On the FP test, though, the difference is less than 3%. I doubt a non-MP Athlon with 5% more clock would be beaten by it on this test.
Likewise, here The MP only outperforms the Athlon by 2.6%:
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It only outperforms by less than 3% on workstation tests.
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And, it outperforms by roughly 3% on the Linux Compile test (single threaded).
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In the Benchmark Studio Baseline and Load Level 1 tests, the Athlon beats the Athlon MP, but only by an insignificant amount. It takes Load Level 2 before there is any significant improvement in the Athlon MP.
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Finally, in SysMark 2001, the MP only outperforms the Athlon by roughly 2%.
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With a >5% clock advantage, I believe the Athlon 1.4GHz can beat the Palomino core at 1.33GHz. I'll take you up on that bet, Milo. Let's see what the majority of application benchmarks show once reviews start coming up.
To clarify, my position is that the Athlon XP 1500+ will be outperformed by the 1.4GHz Athlon, even if by just a little, on at least 50% of benchmarks on various web pages. In other words, if I can link to 1 more benchmark where the Athlon 1.4GHz outperforms the Athlon XP 1500+ than you can, you lose.
If I lose, I'll gladly admit I was wrong in front of the forum. You will do the same. Happy hunting.
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