WHY DOES THE ATHLON XP 2000+ RUN AT 1.667 GIGAHERTZ?
AMD processors are not relying on brute MHz/GHz for performance. Intel lowered their calculations per cycle in order to increase the clock speed. Thus, the XP2000+ running at 1.667GHz has about the same overall calculation capability as the Intel 2GHz offering. If you look at the naming convention AMD has adopted, the XP processors all have a lower clock speed than the processors their names indicate they are competing against. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (runs at 1.67GHz) vs. the Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (runs at 1.60GHz) vs. the Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (runs at 1.53GHz) vs. the Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (runs at 1.47GHz) vs. the Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (runs at 1.40GHz) vs. the Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz So far our tests have indicated that the AMD processors not only equal their higher GHz’d competition, but often exceed it … by a substantial margin. Our synthetic and FPS tests on the XP1900+ indicated that not only did
