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AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Review

Posted by Zonk on from the heavy-hardware dept.

Duane writes "GDHardware.com has the first review of AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 FX-57 CPU clocked at 2.8GHz. They benchmark it against Intel's current fastest 3.8GHz P4 and the Athlon 64 X2." From the article: "Clocked at 2.8GHz, the FX-57 continues the 'San Diego' core AMD released with the FX-55, but is stepped up a paltry 200MHz faster. What's interesting is that while 200MHz on the Intel side of things doesn't always mean that great of a performance gain, not so with AMD."

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  1. Re:640x480 gaming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All hardware sites do CPU testing in games at low resolutions - in doing so they help remove the GPU factor. It's obvious you don't know much about hardware testing..

  2. Damn you by skomes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Damn you Intel and AMD, always teasing me with the absolute most bleeding edge hardware that I CAN'T AFFORD. Come on, let's work on bringing down prices as well as bringing up performance.

  3. Re:Clockrate differences... by rookworm · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From article: Although the FX-57 runs at 2.8GHz, we did have some room to overlock things a bit by raising the bus speeds - we were able to safely clock it to a steady 3GHz and found an average performance gain of near 20-percent at that level.

    This seems to imply Athlon scales better than linearly (?!) How does that work?

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  4. Re:No way. by GISGEOLOGYGEEK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you ever actually looked at your task manager?

    You don't think that the 'system idle' process is really sucking up all your power do you?

    The point you make is meaningless here. The OS is not taking 90% of the resources of this system.

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  5. Re:No way. by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whoever modded this guy insightful is a moron.

    When you overclock you upgrade several diffrent subsystems diffrent amounts.

    Perhaps the clock speed of the busses on his video card and CPU memory interface increased by 40%.

    Also there is obviously no overhead on the new cpu cycles... the list goes on.

  6. Re:AMD Reaping the benefits of HyperTransport by Ezdaloth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Funny thing is, it isn't purely their HyperTransport. It was developed togerther with Digital for their alpha CPU's. Way to go digital, like many other "modern" features the alpha chips had this baby first. Too bad they died.

    you can also look at alpha systems (in this matter any "real workstation design") how to fix this, e.g. with memory interleaving. With 64 memory dimms supplying data to the CPU, it will be the memory running circles around your CPU. :-)

    Same goes for IO, most cheap-ass computers are quite fast considering the CPU, but with crappy disks, a slow pci-bus, etc. Go S-ATA, go pci-e; maybe we'll have the possibility to build decent affordable PC's afterall somewhere in the near future.