VHJ: The Success of AMD's New Nomenclature the lowest price for an Athlon MP 1900 , which runs at 1.6GHz, is currently $337, an XP 1900 is $236 while a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 is only $161. Yes, the AMD Athlon MP or XP 1900 outperforms even Intel's fastest (and still rare) 2GHz P4, the point is that, at the same clock speed, AMD has taken over pricing dominance with a chip that is inherently much cheaper to produce. Also, AMD's latest Athlon, the MP 1900 , is now selling on Price Watch even beyond AMD's 1k lot price which has never been the norm.