AMD Athlon 64 FX-57: The Fastest Single Core
by Derek Wilson on June 27, 2005 11:47 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Content Creation
MCC Winstone 2004Multimedia 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
As you can see above, Lightwave is part of the MCC Winstone 2004 benchmark suite. As an individual application, Lightwave does manage to get a healthy performance benefit with multithreaded rendering enabled, especially when paired with Hyperthreading enabled CPUs like the Pentium 4s here today. All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.
ICC SYSMark 2004
The first category that we will deal with is 3D Content Creation. The tests that make up this benchmark are described below:
"The user renders a 3D model to a bitmap using 3ds max 5.1, while preparing web pages in Dreamweaver MX. Then the user renders a 3D animation in a vector graphics format."
Next, we have 2D Content Creation performance:
"The user uses Premiere 6.5 to create a movie from several raw input movie cuts and sound cuts and starts exporting it. While waiting on this operation, the user imports the rendered image into Photoshop 7.01, modifies it and saves the results. Once the movie is assembled, the user edits it and creates special effects using After Effects 5.5."
The Internet Content Creation suite is rounded up with a Web Publishing performance test:
"The user extracts content from an archive using WinZip 8.1. Meanwhile, he uses Flash MX to open the exported 3D vector graphics file. He modifies it by including other pictures and optimizes it for faster animation. The final movie with the special effects is then compressed using Windows Media Encoder 9 series in a format that can be broadcast over broadband Internet. The web site is given the final touches in Dreamweaver MX and the system is scanned by VirusScan 7.0."
Mozilla + Media Encoder
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Calin - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
Anyway, what's with the data analysis benchmark? Looks like every Pentium4 beats the hell out of every Athlon64.If this is true, then I feel my suggestions to buy Athlon64 might not always be correct
Calin - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
An processor with 1M level2 cache and dual channel memory controller is a preview of what to expect from a nice cheap 256K cache single channel memory controller? I really really don't think soAtaStrumf - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
This isn't just a speed bump, it's a new revision (SH-E4 I think). Check PCU-Z next time!New Semprons with x86-64 will be even newer revisons - DH-E6 (don't know if that's good or bad yet, but very likely good) so OCing of this new E4 is like the most important thing here because nobody's gonna buy $1000 CPUs, nobody here anyway.
FX-57 is a preview of what to expect of a nice cheap 3300+ Sempron and all you gave it was one line. Try a little harder next time please! If it's true that everybody else is getting 3,0 GHz on air, than that is great news. Just what we have been waiting for!!!
JarredWalton - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
Overclocking is half luck, and there's no telling how the OC benches at other places are really performed. 2.75 GHz "easy" on a Winchester? Fat chance. Maybe with water cooling and the proper motherboard, but even then it's not guaranteed. And don't think the Venice cores are much better - they're really about the same, which means 2.6 to 2.7 GHz air cooled is the typical maximum for a truly stable system.Anyway, if you're into serious cooling and overclocking, the FX-57 might be a bit better than the FX-55. 90nm vs. 130nm I believe, so hopefully it does better. I just can't see dropping $1000 for a single threaded CPU, though. A 4000+ San Diego does almost as well at half the cost, even with overclocking.
composer - Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - link
I don't get it? A AMD64 3200 Winny clocks easy at 2.75 with no problems.Why would someone in the know buy such a proc if they can get the same performance for little money?
Also, why can't they get past 3.0 ghz yet? (air cooling, or do we need to wait for .65 nano?
JustAnAverageGuy - Monday, June 27, 2005 - link
Page 1:"But as we have mentioned time and time again, steadily increasing clock speed over time is a loosing proposition. "
'losing'
Those macro buttons are getting overused. It's the same text in every review, just different charts. :)
Sunbird - Monday, June 27, 2005 - link
The FX-57 is still being called a FX-55 in the Doom3 graphs.Cygni - Monday, June 27, 2005 - link
Oh, in other news, the only thing i felt missing was Dual core results. Could have deffinitly been used.Cygni - Monday, June 27, 2005 - link
Its a speedbump review... i dont think AT, or anybody else, really gives a shit.cryptonomicon - Monday, June 27, 2005 - link
uh, they used the dfi ultra-d to overclock right?else, that is just retarded.