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As mentioned in the beginning of this review, we only had since Saturday morning to run all the benchmark and write the review, so some of the benchmarks are showing more and some are showing fewer comparison systems which was all we could squeeze into the amount of time available. We deliberately skip synthetic benchmarks like SiSoft Sandra and PCMark since they really have no bearing on the performance metrics shown here.

ZD Labs Benchmarks

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According to some sources in some company this obsolete workload does not count. I guess it really depends on who is talking but the Athlons both show a very convincing performance even against Intel's heavyweight in form of the Granite Bay chipset.

The XP3000+ clearly pulls ahead of the XP2800+ despite a nominally lower clock speed. HyperThreading does not appear to make much difference here either, the scores on the Granite Bay-based ASUS P4G8X come out about even.

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The latest edition of Business Winstone with the suffic 2002 shows an even larger margin for the AMD processors. For my personal taste, the P4 - Granite Bay numbers are a bit on the low side but they were consistent within two runs. Increasing system memory to 1 GB changed the overall picture somewhat but that is not the topic of this review.

Again, the XP3000+ is ahead in the game followed by its little brother. HT enabling appears to hurt the P4 which is nothing new in this kind of application.

The entire picture is very reminiscent of the K6-2/III vs. PII/III situation where the AMD processors were unbeatable in business applications. But what about content creation and games?

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