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AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: A Dual-Core farewell to Socket-939

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 9, 2006 11:59 PM EST
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Overall Performance using Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Microsoft Access 2002
. Microsoft Excel 2002
. Microsoft FrontPage 2002
. Microsoft Outlook 2002
. Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
. Microsoft Project 2002
. Microsoft Word 2002
. Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
. WinZip 8.1

Business Winstone 2004

Although the numbers show it in the lead, the margin of the lead is small enough for us to call it a virtual tie between the FX-60 and the FX-57. But the thing to take home from this is that the dual core FX-60, despite being slighly slower than the single core FX-57, is finally able to offer competitive performance even in single-threaded environments.


Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
. Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
. Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
. Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
. Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
. NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
. SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f
All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004

Once we move to a more multithreaded environment, the FX-60 begins to shine and not only cements its role as the latest leader in the FX line, but also offers a 5.5% performance advantage over the previous king.

The Test Overall Performance using SYSMark 2004
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  • AnandThenMan - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link

    What no overclocking tests. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The thing is totally unlocked! What the hell.

  • ViRGE - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link

    It's the same Toledo core as the rest of the 1MB X2's, I doubt it would overclock much better in the first place.

  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link

    With a retail AMD heatsink/fan, the best we could do is 2.8GHz at 1.40V. With more exotic cooling you could probably manage better, but stepping up the voltage all the way up to 1.50V wouldn't yield a 3GHz overclock on air.

    I'm going to update the article with the results, I meant to have them in the conclusion initially but it slipped my mind when posting.

    Take care,
    Anand

  • ckbrame - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - link

    Where can I get one woot woot!
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