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ViX wrote:Say, you have AMD Duron™ Processor 1.3Ghz with Geforce4Ti 6400. Would the graphics be better on a AMD AtholonXP 2.8Ghz? Or does it pretty much depend on the graphics card to increase graphics/performance? The only the thing you notice in games is that the 2.8 loads faster...right? Sorry for the novice questions .
AMD revised the XP rating with their newest CPUs based upon the 0.13mu T.bred-B core (XP2400+ and up) IMHO to account for the boost P4 gets from 512k cache and 533FSB. The XP rating unofficialy relates to the P4 at that mhz clock, so XP2000+ running at 1.67ghz gives perf equal to a P4 2.0ghz. The XP2400+ and faster CPUs have had the XP rating turned down so the XP2400+ is actually faster than it sounds against the XP2200+. Anyway the XP rating tends to be under-optimistic if anything so an XP2000+ tends to marginaly beat the P4 2.0ghz if anything. Here's a run down of what the XP CPUs run at:
pattouk2001 wrote:AMD revised the XP rating with their newest CPUs based upon the 0.13mu T.bred-B core (XP2400+ and up) IMHO to account for the boost P4 gets from 512k cache and 533FSB. The XP rating unofficialy relates to the P4 at that mhz clock, so XP2000+ running at 1.67ghz gives perf equal to a P4 2.0ghz. The XP2400+ and faster CPUs have had the XP rating turned down so the XP2400+ is actually faster than it sounds against the XP2200+. Anyway the XP rating tends to be under-optimistic if anything so an XP2000+ tends to marginaly beat the P4 2.0ghz if anything. Here's a run down of what the XP CPUs run at:
Hi matie. AMD's PR rating is compared to their old T-Bird CPU's clock speeds, not the P4's clock speeds. For example, the AthlonXP 1600+ which actually runs at 1.4ghz, relates to the clock frequency that a Athlon T-Bird would have to be running at in order to perform similar to that AthlonXP running at 1.4ghz.