WidowPC Gaming Computers - FX57 vs X2 vs Intel EE
When the dual core and FX57 chips were released there were plenty of reviews released. We just noticed a PC World review that had good comparisons to the Intel Extreme Edition 3.73GHz chip that we hadn't seen in others. Here's the quote:
We tested a reference system from AMD configured with the new chip; 1GB of DDR400 memory; a 10,000-rpm, 74GB Western Digital hard drive; an NVidia 6800 Ultra graphics card with 256MB of RAM; and Windows XP Professional. The unit earned a score of 116 on WorldBench 5, which ties for the second highest score on this benchmark with a previously tested AMD reference system using a 2.4-GHz dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4800+ chip (the rest of the configuration is identical). It also bested the 107 average score of two previously tested systems with the Athlon 64 FX-55, as well as the 102 score of a reference Intel system using the 64-bit 3.73-GHz Pentium Extreme Edition chip.
Though the final score was the same on both the AMD FX-57 and X2 systems, results on the individual applications that make up WorldBench 5 varied considerably. As you might expect, the most dramatic differences were on our multitasking test and with multithreaded applications that can recognize and take advantage of multiple processors, such as Windows Media Encoder.
In the latter case, the system with the X2 chip beat the FX-57 machine by about a minute, completing the test in 4 minutes, 16 seconds versus the FX-57's 5 minutes, 18 seconds. The X2 PC performed even better in the multitasking test, where it took 6 minutes, 44 seconds to complete the tasks that took the FX-57 a significantly longer 8 minutes and 56 seconds to do.
However, the FX-57 system reversed that trend with Musicmatch Jukebox, besting the X2 unit by nearly a minute (6 minutes, 30 seconds versus 7 minutes, 27 seconds for the X2).The FX-57 machine also generally topped the X2 PC on other applications such as ACDSee PowerPack 5, and Winzip 8.1, but with less dramatic margins--the differences typically ranged from 5 percent to 10 percent.
In the gaming arena, it was no contest. The FX-57 system demonstrated its prowess on Unreal Tournament, where it produced 185 frames per second at 1024 by 768 with 32-bit color and 181 fps with 1280 by 1024 at 32-bit color. In contrast, the X2 system had 167 fps, the two FX-55 systems averaged 151 fps, and the 3.73-GHz Pentium EE system had 148 fps at 1024 by 768 resolution with 32-bit color.
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