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| AMD Athlon64-FX57 The Cost of Speed | |
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(Review by MS June 27, 2005) |
| AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Venice) |
SiSoft Sandra
There are different ways of measuring CPU performance and one of them is SiSoft Sandra's Multimedia CPU benchmark that measures Integer SSE and Floating Point SSE2 performance by, for example, performing Mandelbrot fractals.
Compared to the - pricewise comparable - dual core or SMP competition, the FX57 looks downright puny but how will that translate into real world performance?
FPU memory bandwidth: higher is better: In the memory bandwidth performance category, the FX57 holds its place but, like any of the 90 nm cores, it does not reach the older ClawHammer, despite the fact that it is running at higher clock speed.
Cachemem 2.65
Access latencies for cache and main memory: lower is better. When it comes to memory access latencies, the FX57 (solid blue columns) is faster than the older Clawhammer-based 4000+ (transparent columns).
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