Athlon XP is here, finally

[jpprod]

Anandtech's review of Athlon XP

Looks like AMD clearly took the performance crown back from Intel (if it had even lost it in the first place, depends on point of view). The new 1.53GHz Athlon XP has a surprisingly large performance advantage over AMD's previous flagship processor, 1.4GHz Tbird Athlon. Assuming XP is able to ramp up in clockspeed in the area of 1.8-2.0GHz, it may hold it's own even against the upcoming .13m Northwood P4.

In my opinion the performance rating system -while being admirably conservative from AMD's part - is unnecessary and perhaps even a bit confusing. It's hard to accept the fact that the average computer-buying consumer is an idiot easily impressed by big numbers.

[Emmett.hendrick]

And so the AMD/WINTEL debate rages on. personally I'm going AMD next upgrade possible a dual processor system if I can stretch to it.