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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) |
WorldBench5
One issue we have had in past reviews with Worldbench5 is that most applications are single -threaded or at least make poor use of SMT and SMP. It is, therefore, very simple to predict outstanding performance of the FX57 in this suite. Let's start with those applications, though, that are capable of using multithreading or SMP and save the better for later:
Runtime in seconds - Lower is better
There is something strange about the Microsoft Office benchmark. With Intel CPUs, it prefers the single cores, with AMD CPUs, it likes the dual core X2 - but then, it certainly does not like the dual Opteron setup. Well, blame it on Microsoft....
Runtime in seconds - Lower is better
Roxio VideoWave MovieCreator is clearly multthreaded and it shows in the duallies taking the undisputed lead
Runtime in seconds - Lower is better
Windows MediaEncoder is likewise multithreaded and, thus, the FX57 can only compete in the midfield. Still, it is the fastest single core AMD CPU by quite a margin.
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