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Athlon 4 and MP to get XP speed features
News The features that collectively make up what AMD calls its Quantispeed technology, launched on Tuesday in the Athlon XP processor, will migrate to the mobile Athlon 4 and to the Athlon MP multiprocessor chips early next year.
[October 10, 2001, 11:30]
Athlon 4 and Duron ship in laptops
News AMD announced late on Tuesday that its Athlon 4 and Duron mobile processor will be used in new laptops from Fujitsu, NEC and Sony, bolstering its plans to do battle with Intel in the mobile PC market.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP review
Reviews Only when running mainstream applications and some Internet-related tasks does AMD’s top-of-the-range Athlon XP/2100+ retain an edge. Intel has recently launched three new processors that feature a 533MHz frontside bus (FSB), compared to the...
[May 16, 2002, 16:45]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: gaming performance review
Reviews The fastest Athlon processor (Athlon XP/2100+) give way to the Pentium 4/ 2400 and P4/2533 on MadOnion’s 3DMark 2001 SE. However, there’s only a 3 per cent difference in performance between the P4/2533 and the Athlon XP/2100+, which most users will...
[May 16, 2002, 16:39]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: conclusion review
Reviews A test using a chipset that supports both DDR memory and the 533MHz FSB, expected later this month, will make an interesting comparison with the Athlon XP. The performance tests using Lightwave 7b and the DivX compression with Xmpeg certainly...
[May 16, 2002, 16:40]
AMD revs up Athlon 4 and Duron chips
News AMD on Monday gave its Athlon 4 and Duron chips a performance boost. The chipmaker announced a 1.1GHz Athlon 4 and a 900MHz Duron -- both for notebook PCs -- and said Compaq Computer will offer the new mobile chips in its Presario 1200 line.
[August 21, 2001, 9:09]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: rendering performance review
Reviews Despite a new version 2.46 of 3D Studio Max that contains optimisations for the Pentium 4, rendering of simple 3D objects (Kinetix-logo) does not go faster with the new Pentium 4/2533 than with an Athlon XP/2100+.
[May 16, 2002, 16:37]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: encoding performance review
Reviews The MP3 encoder MusicMatch Jukebox has been optimised in version 7.0 for Intel’s Pentium 4, allowing the new 2,533MHz Pentium 4 to just beat the Athlon XP/2100+. The new 533MHz-bus Pentium 4 processors are also faster than the Athlon XP/2100+ at...
[May 16, 2002, 16:36]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: Internet performance review
Reviews When representing HTML pages, AMD’s Athlon XP has its nose in front. An Athlon XP/2000+ is already as fast as the Pentium 4/2533. With a performance difference of 43.5 percent between the fastest (Athlon/XP2100+) and slowest (Pentium 4/2000...
[May 16, 2002, 16:38]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: application performance review
Reviews With business applications such as Word, Excel, Notes and WinZip, which are all components of Business Winstone 2001, Intel’s new flagship 2533MHz Pentium 4 closes the gap on the Athlon XP/2100+. Even an Athlon XP/2000+ with DDR memory is faster...
[May 16, 2002, 16:35]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: How we tested review
Reviews Athlon XP The first available chipset from Intel is the Rambus-only 850E. However, the memory clock in this chipset remains unchanged at 400MHz, which means that it only supports PC800 memory. Note also that you must use 40ns PC800-40 Rambus memory...
[May 16, 2002, 16:34]
AMD squeezes Athlon 4 into notebooks
News AMD has officially launched its flagship Athlon and Duron processors for laptop computers. Compaq said it is shipping a 1GHz Athlon 4, immediately, in its Presario 1200 notebook line. The move is the first time AMD has squeezed its top-of-the-line...
[May 14, 2001, 9:26]
AMD dubs new chip Athlon 4
News Forget the Athlon 2 or 3. Advanced Micro Devices is going to call its next chip the Athlon 4. As part of its ongoing rivalry with Intel, AMD will call its new chip, coming out next week, the Athlon 4, according to sources.
[May 10, 2001, 8:12]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: How we tested
Talkback pls.i will like to know about the itel p4 processor (supporting Hyperthreading technology),in the 775 LGA package.thank you.
[March 10, 2005, 9:31]
AMD speeds notebooks
News AMD has ramped up its mobile processor line, launching a 1.2GHz Athlon 4 and a 950MHz Duron. The mobile Athlon 4 includes 384KB of on-chip memory cache, including 128KB of level-one cache on the processor die, as well as 3DNow multimedia...
[November 12, 2001, 14:50]
HP: First laptop with Athlon chip coming
News Hewlett-Packard will soon announce its first notebook based on AMD's Athlon processor, according to retail sources. The PC maker will announce its long-awaited Athlon 4 Pavilion notebook model later this month, marking a significant boost for AMD's...
[June 21, 2001, 9:18]
Intel hits AMD with Tualatin chips
News Delivering a counterpunch to rival Advanced Micro Devices and its new 1GHz Athlon 4 chip, Intel will launch five new mobile Pentium III chips this July, sources said. The fastest new mobile Pentium IIIs will compete with AMD's Athlon 4 chip...
[May 17, 2001, 7:55]
Athlon XP/2600+: Internet performance review
Reviews Thanks to new chipset updates and BIOS optimisations, the Pentium 4 is now faster at rendering HTML pages than the Athlon XP processors. The 2.53GHz Pentium 4 and 2.13GHz Athlon XP/2600+ are almost equally fast when rendering PDF documents.
[September 3, 2002, 15:28]
New P4 outstrips Athlon - just
News The performance of Intel's new 2.4GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor merely edges ahead of AMD's latest Athlon XP 2100+, running at 1733MHz, despite the Intel processor's 667MHz lead over the Athlon, according to new ZDNet benchmark tests.
[April 4, 2002, 16:33]
Athlon XP/2600+: rendering and decoding performance review
Reviews Despite the fact that 3D Studio Max 4.26 includes Pentium 4 optimisation, rendering of simple 3D objects (Kinetix Logo) with the 2.53GHz Pentium is no faster than it is with an Athlon XP/2200+. Rendering the architecture scene, which is recommended...
[September 3, 2002, 15:23]
