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While initially offered only as part of Duron "Morgan" processors of 1GHz frequency or greater and of Athlon MP processors, the "Palomino" core has now made its grand entrance onto the home-desktop scene with the introduction of the AMD Athlon XP. The XP goes a long way to show that the performance wars aren't over yet, and that AMD still has a few tricks up its sleeve. The introduction of the Athlon XP also represents a return similar to the "Power Rating" system of performance measurement that was once employed by Cyrix. Now that it's available in its 4 variations, AMD's Athlon XP is aimed squarely at the heart of Intel's Pentium 4, to whom we'll be comparing it throughout our analysis. And, speaking of which, let's say we get down to business, and take a closer look at this new CPU.
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