Another AMD Athlon 64 X2 Review Emerges

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Lineup Benchmarks Pubslished

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 07/20/2005 | 05:39 AM ]

GamePC has posted an article about AMD dual-core microprocessors lineup and performance of the Athlon 64 X2 in real-life applications. The web-site has published results of numerous benchmarks, including 3D Studio Max 7.0, Maya 6.5, Flash MX 4000 and others. The new chips had been compared to various competitors, including Intel Pentium D and Extreme Edition, Intel Pentium 4 as well as Intel Pentium M.

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“Performance wise, we are confident in saying that the Athlon64 X2 4800+ is the fastest overall processor on the market today. The vast majority of multi-threaded applications showed the 4800+ at the top of the benchmark charts, and it only falls behind to the Athlon64 FX series in gaming. Even in games, the 4800+ chip is only a small amount behind the FX. The chip is far more balanced compared to the Intel’s dual-core Pentium-D/EE processors when handling single threaded applications. However, while the 4800+ rules the charts, one should consider that most of our applications did not show much benefit from the 4800+’s 1MB of cache (per core) compared to the 4600+ 512 kB of cache (per core). In the majority of applications, the 4600+ (which is quite a bit less expensive) performs nearly identically to the top of the line 4800+ model,” concludes GamePC.

• GamePC: Dual Core Done Right: AMD’s Athlon64 X2 Processors.