The Palomino core will be replaced with the Thoroughbred and then the Barton core with SOI as with other AMD processors. See our AMD roadmap . While the Duron will move from the Morgan to the Appaloosa core. These show the typical overall performance you can expect comparing a dual AMD 1.2GHz Athlon MP using the AMD-760MP chipset with a dual Intel Xeon 1.7GHz, both using PC2100 memory. The Workstation Performance using Ziff Davis Media's Dual Processor Inspection uses three applications to test dual setups.
Lower value is best.
SYSMark 2001 is not really for dual setups but gives a good test. The value has been divided by 10 to fit the graph. Office Productivity Performance using SYSMark 2001, again divided by 10 to fit graph. Values divided by 10 to fit graph. Lower value is best.