All objects with Palomino chip
| Palomino is the third-generation Athlon. It was launched on October 9, 2001 as AMD Athlon XP. With the launch, AMD introduced a PR system (Performance Rating) like Cyrix used for their Pentium-equivelant named 6x86. An Athlon XP 1500+ running at 1333GHz should be as fast as an old Athlon 'Thunderbird' running at 1500MHz. The 'Palomino' is roughly 10% faster than the 'Thunderbird' and uses about 20% less power. The 10% extra performance did not show in every test, however. Palomino is also the first socketed Athlon to officially support dual processing (SMP) and SMP-capable CPU's were launched as Athlon MP. It didn't took much time for people to find out how to run the Athlon XP in dual processor setups. Because Palomino used less power, AMD also used it for their Mobile Athlon (codename Corvette) with usually ran at lower clock frequencies and voltages. The mobile versions also came with AMD PowerNow! to reduce the clock frequency in idle situations. |  |