Which one is faster?

I have an Athlon XP 2600 and also I have a Sempron 2600 socket A...Which one is faster CPU ?

The XP 2600 is faster.

Sempron are lowsy. I don't know why AMD bothered to build them. I suppose there OK for "Library" PC's).

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Thanks for the answers guys.My Sempron specs are this:


AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.833GHz, 333MHz FSB 256KB L2 Processor -
Core: Thoroughbred
Operating Frequency: 1.833GHz
FSB: 333MHz
Cache: L1/64K+64K; L2/ 256KB
Voltage: 1.65V
Process: 0.13Micron

AND MY athlon xp specs are this:


Model: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Core: Barton
Operating Frequency: 1.9GHz
FSB: 333MHz
Cache: L1/64K+64K; L2/512K
Wattage: 55W
Voltage: 1.5V
Process: 0.13Micron

Oh, it's a barton xp2600, so it's only 8% faster than the sempron. (on the same mobo of course)

The Athlon XP had 4 core revisions, palomino, thoroughbred A, thoroughbred B and Barton.

The sempron can use one of 2 cores, either a cut down version of the Athlon64 core or the thoroughbred core from the old althon XP. Your one uses the thoroughbred core.

My point being that the sempron IS the AthlonXP. (Although your Athlon XP is still faster because it has more L2 cache).

You can try benchmarking...

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That is a logical assumption, but still an assumption... benchmarking is the only way to tell for sure, I don't think the performance difference is worth the effort. They will more than likely be within about 10% of each other and you won't be able to tell the difference in most common applications taht aren't CPU intensive. JMHO.

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However... The thoroughbred core Semprons have a higher PR rating - that 2600+ Sempron is the same chip as the XP2400+ Thoroughbred (or was it the 2200+? I forget), AMD just renamed it for the change in its market segment. So in all cases (99.9% certain), an XP chip of the same PR rating will perform better than a Sempron. The same way that the 3100+ Sempron (s754) doesn't perform as well as an A64 3000+ (it's slightly slower than a 2800+).

Mike.