AMD Launches Athlon Processor at 1300 and 1333 MHz

Video Processing

Video2000 is doesn't make much of a difference between the five processors and Pentium 4 wins with a tiny edge.

The iDCT-part (required for the decoding of the MPEG2-stream) of the MPEG4-encoding software FlasK is optimized for Athlon as well as Pentium 4 and here you can see how powerful Pentium 4 can be. Even the Athlon 1600 of the Power Box is unable to beat Pentium 4 1.5 GHz.

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  • travitar
    I've had mine for 10 years now and it still runs great! If you're a traveler to the future and are wondering which chip to get in the year 2001, this one is hard to beat.
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