AMDZone have thrown up their review of AMD's Athlon 64 2800+! Here's a snip.
If you thought AMD was finished with lower rated Athlon 64's you were wrong. They have now released a 2800+ model running at 1.8GHz with 512KB of L2 cache costing in the $170s. Despite this release the Athlon 64 3000+ remains near the $200 mark. With the recent FX53 release their desktop Athlon 64 line runs from 1.8 to 2.4GHz which is enough of a spread to field a pretty impressive mid range to high end desktop line. We have an OEM version of the 2800+ in our labs for testing, and what follows is a comparison of it to the entire Athlon 64 line, and to the 3.2GHz P4 Northwood. In future articles we will look at overclocking, and compare to Prescott. Here we see from the markings that the CPU is a 2800+ rating, and the AEP4AP reveals a 512kb cache. A 1MB CPU would have a 5 instead of a 4. The last P indicates a shipping and not an engineering sample as we have seen with some 3400+ on the markets that were packaged before AMD changed their 2GHz part to a 3200+ rating. The date code indicates a week 4 CPU from this year. The batch code is a CAAJC. Let's move on to the system setup and benchmarking.
Athlon 64 2800+
If you thought AMD was finished with lower rated Athlon 64's you were wrong. They have now released a 2800+ model running at 1.8GHz with 512KB of L2 cache costing in the $170s. Despite this release the Athlon 64 3000+ remains near the $200 mark. With the recent FX53 release their desktop Athlon 64 line runs from 1.8 to 2.4GHz which is enough of a spread to field a pretty impressive mid range to high end desktop line. We have an OEM version of the 2800+ in our labs for testing, and what follows is a comparison of it to the entire Athlon 64 line, and to the 3.2GHz P4 Northwood. In future articles we will look at overclocking, and compare to Prescott. Here we see from the markings that the CPU is a 2800+ rating, and the AEP4AP reveals a 512kb cache. A 1MB CPU would have a 5 instead of a 4. The last P indicates a shipping and not an engineering sample as we have seen with some 3400+ on the markets that were packaged before AMD changed their 2GHz part to a 3200+ rating. The date code indicates a week 4 CPU from this year. The batch code is a CAAJC. Let's move on to the system setup and benchmarking.
Athlon 64 2800+
