TomsHardware reviews AMD's Athlon XP 3200+ and Intel's Pentium 4 3ghz
This is the 16th processor in the popular XP series (the launch of the 2800 version at 2250 MHz for the press doesn't really count, in our opinion). It represents the 10th stage in the AMD Athlon's evolution, a feat no other processor architecture can claim to match. Since the Athlon design was launched in 1998 - when it began soundly trouncing the Pentium III - AMD has tweaked the processor heavily and locked horns with Intel's P4.
By giving it the "XP 3200 +" label, AMD has presented this latest addition to the XP line as the fastest desktop processor available on the retail market. That's more, the little plus sign after the number should help to inflate expectations, leading some users to automatically assume that this new baby will be, at worst, as fast as a Pentium 4 at 3200 MHz. While it is debatable whether AMD's processor naming convention is a true reflection of the XP's performance, it does the job in so far as positioning AMD in a like for like battle with Intel...
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