Upgrading to eXtreme Performance

AMD's latest showpiece has been baptized Athlon XP, with XP standing for eXtreme Performance... It is no surprise that AMD's latest and greatest performs very well, as the Athlon XP is a higher clocked version of the same "Palomino" core found in the Athlon MP. As you read in our Athlon MP vs Pentium 4 Xeon shootout, the Workstation Battle Royal, the 1.2 GHz Athlon MP delivered stunning performance, outperforming Intel's 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon in almost all cases. In fact, the first AMD workstation processor walked all over Intel's best CPUs in current workstation software.