AMD Athlon 64 FX-57, tuning above all else
Recently, AMD announced that it would immediately ship its single-core desktop processor for desktop computers, which was “surprisingly” dubbed the Athlon 64 FX-57 in baptism.
The high price of the processor, more than $ 1 per piece, suggests that it is not intended for ordinary mortals. As recently reported about it, the company itself is interestingly addressing the hardware itself to lovers of overdrive. Of course, several reputable foreign internet magazines have been given the opportunity to be among the first to test the high-end 64-bit processor. The results are nearly similar everywhere. What is that X-bit labs we highlighted his test out of many, as perhaps the most detailed writing on the processor can be found here.
First of all, a graph, perhaps reassuring for many, about the increased consumption already mentioned, with values measured under load:
It really consumes more under load than a “normal” E3 core Athlon 64, on the other hand, it doesn’t eat up as much energy as an older model with a CG release, and we prefer to leave competing Prescott-based solutions in this circle. AMD has also enabled the ability to adjust the multiplier upwards in the FX series, allowing the processor to be more sophisticated. Although X-bit labs testers crossed the magic 3,0 GHz frequency with “field” air cooling, the processor refused to operate stably at óra 3 MHz even at the highest voltage settings (it can be assumed that a normal water cooling is extremely can swing a lot).
Raw processor data without claiming completeness:
Socket-939 socket
E4 - San Diego codenamed core with 90 nanometer manufacturing technology
1 MB second level cache
1 MHz Hyper Transport connection
Support for x86-64, MMX (+), 3D-Now! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3 instruction sets
Some snatch test results that were performed by eye testers on different games:
Of course, not just during games measured CPU performance, but since AMD intends the hardware for this purpose, perhaps these results are interesting to the reader. Well, so there is not much to accomplish at the base clock, but we will wait until it gets cheaper.
