AMD AthlonXP 2100+ Processor Review AMD's Athon XP2100+ is a 1.73GHz processor set to the tune of a 0.18 micron Palomino core and a spritely green OPGA package.  82% Rating:    Table of Contents Filed under: CPU / Processors Published:  Author:  External Mfg. Website: AMD Mar 13 2002   C. Sun   Home > Reviews > CPU / Processors > AMD AthlonXP 2100+

Please note that the overclocked AthlonXP 2100+ at 1.89 GHz will be running at 145 MHz FSB.

BAPCO Sysmark 2001	Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SYSmark2001 uses real world applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions, in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and applications. Higher numbers denote better performance.

BapCo SysMark 2001 Benchmark Results
	Processor / Test	Sysmarks	Ranking
	Internet Content
1.	Pentium4 2.0GHz	210
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	194
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	201
2.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	222
	Office Productivity
1.	Pentium4 2.0GHz	142
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	190
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	201
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	215

With Sysmark 2001 the AthlonXP 2100+ extends a lead over the Willamette Pentium 4. One thing to keep in mind is that Internet Content would have shown higher results had Windows Media Encoder 7.0 used SSE which is compatible with the core of the AthlonXP.

Winstone 2001	Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call "hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.

Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98 ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2001 Benchmark Results
	Content Creation (FSB/Memory)	Scores	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 2 GHz	59.7
2	AthlonXP 2000+	85.2
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	90.9
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	95.3
	Business Winstone (FSB/Memory)
1	Pentium 4 2 GHz	43.1
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	66.7
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	73.6
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	79.1

The AthlonXP simply walks over the Pentium 4 in both Business Winstone and Content Creation. Even the slower AthlonXP 2000+ trounces the Pentium 4 (Willamette) 2 GHz. Realistically though, you really don't need an AthlonXP 2100+ to work with office applications, but in 6 or 12 month's time it may be quite necessary.

SPECviewPerf 6.1.2	Source: SPEC.org

SPECviewperf™ is a portable OpenGL performance benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital and other SPECopc^SM project group members. SPECviewperf provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. Currently, the program runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and Linux.

SPECviewperf 6.1.2 Benchmark Results
	Procssor / Test	Score	Ranking
	Light_04
1.	Pentium 4 2 GHz	7.883
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	8.689
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	9.216
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	10.93
	DRV_07
1.	Pentium 4 2 GHz	18.80
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	18.30
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	19.54
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	27.93
	DX_06
1.	Pentium 4 2 GHz	28.99
2.	AthlonXP 2000+	27.14
3.	AthlonXP 2100+	29.70
4.	AthlonXP 2100+ (oc'ed)	40.95

I'm not sure what to make of the results in DRV_07 and DX_06. All the benchmarks look in line until the AthlonXP 2100+ overclocked and the results jump fast. Perhaps SPECviewperf doesn't handle the high CPU speed very well.... in any case we reran these two benchmarks three times just to confirm the overclocked numbers. Each time we got similar scores.

Sisoft Sandra 2002 Pro	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher numbers represent better performance.