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Athlon XP/2200+: workstation performance
The brand-new OpenGL benchmark Viewperf 7 puts the AMD processors ahead of Intel’s chips. The difference in performance is particularly marked in the Data Explorer (DX) test.
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The brand-new OpenGL benchmark Viewperf 7 puts the AMD processors ahead of Intel’s chips. The difference in performance is particularly marked in the Data Explorer (DX) test. Here the Athlon XP/2200+ is nearly twice as fast as the Pentium 4/2200 with DDR266 memory.
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![](/i/story/20/40/001417/athlon-2200-vpdx.gif)
![](/i/story/20/40/001417/athlon-2200-vpdrv.gif)
![](/i/story/20/40/001417/athlon-2200-vplgt.gif)
![](/i/story/20/40/001417/athlon-2200-vppro.gif)