Nexus Hardware has posted a review on the AMD Athlon XP 2700+ CPU

AMD is catching up with Intel with all these recently released processors. The Athlon XP 2700+ uses the relatively new Thoroughbred B 0.13-micron core. The Thoroughbred B runs with a 333MHz front-side bus (FSB). This supposedly yields a 20% performance increase from the old 266MHz FSB. This processor runs at 2.17GHz with 256K of L2 cache. Intels Pentium 4 processor on the other hand, has 512K L2 cache. Surprisingly, the Athlon XPs can be as fast or even faster than a comparable Pentium 4 processor.

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