The Final Battle: P4/2400 vs. Athlon XP 2100+ (2400+)

Office/Internet Performance: Sysmark 2002

The new 2002 version of the Sysmark benchmark recently came on the market; we've used this to test all 25 processors on the different platforms. In all three areas, the P4/2400 is ahead of the AMD competition. In Office performance, the Pentium 4/2666 reaches a new top score with 187 points. Again, this shows that the adjustment to FSB and memory clocks help increase the performance of the P4 CPUs. One comment about all AMD Athlon XP CPUs: compared to Intel's models, the AMD processors prove to be relatively weak because they lack enhancements. All chips that are not yet available on the market are marked with grey bars.