Does northwood 1.6a@2.3Ghz beat an amd xp 2000+

[aks93]

Ok the northwoods have finally got my attention. So what is the performance difference between a northwood 1.6a and an xp 2000+?

Any charts out there?

 

[KenAF]

aks93,

I presume you're not going to run your 1.6A at stock, but rather at 2400MHz, and 2550-2650MHz if you can, as others on this board are doing.

Yes, Tomshardware did a comprehensive benchmark comparison a few weeks ago...He clocked a P4 at 2300MHz, 2400MHz, 2600MHz, and 3000MHz...and compared it to all the Athlons, plus an Athlon XP 2000+ overclocked to 2200+ and 2300+ with watercooling. For the tests, the Athlon 2300+ used a 155MHz FSB, the 2200+ used 150MHz FSB, and the 2000+ used 133MHz FSB, compared to 118MHz base FSB for the P4 2600. The P4 is bandwidth limited (its crippled at 118MHz FSB), so obviously it would have performed better with higher clocked DDR or RDRAM. A few sample results:

Sandra CPU Bench: P4 2600 beats Athlon XP 2000+ by 38%, beats XP 2200+ by 28%, and XP 2300+ by 24%
Quake 3 Arena: P4 2600 beats Athlon XP 2000+ by 33%, beats XP 2200+ by 25%, and XP 2300+ by 21%
MP3 encoding: P4 2600 beats Athlon XP 2000+ by 20%, beats XP 2200+ by 11.26%, and XP 2300+ by 8%
MPEG4 DIVX encoding: P4 2600 beats Athlon XP 2000+ by 18%, beats XP 2200+ by 9%, and XP 2300+ by 6%

Take a look at it right here.

 

[sandorski]

Good question. If there were a P4 2.3ghz, I'd suspect that it would be pretty close with an XP 2000, although the P4 would probably have a slight edge overall. A 1.6 o/c 2300 should be somewhat faster than a P4 2300, how much I dunno, so the 1.6 o/c 2300 P4 would most likely be faster than an XP 2000. If you even acheive a slight overclock with the XP 2000, all advantage to the o/ced P4 may disappear however.

 

[Duvie]

Considering all the major reviews of the 2.2ghz beat the amd and often the 2.0ghz northwood was more equal to the athlon 2000+....the answer is yes the 2.4ghz northwood is faster then a stock xp 2000+...The 2000+ will most likely without some extreme costly cooling get to near 2200+ levels so it may be closer but you have to realize the northwood will take advantage of the higher fsb like the athlon does, plus most northwood ocing is being done with no additional cost and the stock cooling...

Also a 1.6 will run you about a 100.00 dollars less and you get the fan and a 3 year warranty...I was comparing to an oem 2000+ chip...retail will be closer t0 120 plus savings but you will not achieve mush with the stock cooling of the athlon...