AMD launches their Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 CPUs today and it couldn’t have come at a better time for them- Intel recently announced to scrap their 4.0GHz CPU. Granted that the 4000+ isn’t a 4.0GHz CPU, the name does imply that it performs as well as an Intel 4.0GHz Pentium4 CPU would.
While the Athlon64 4000+ is a “new” CPU by name, it really is the same thing as AMD’s previous top-of-the-line FX-53 CPU. Speed and Cache are identical to the FX-53- the Athlon64 4000+ is a 2.4GHz CPU with 1MB cache. Its also based on the .13µ process just like the FX-53 even though AMD has started producing CPUs at .90µ . The HSF unit bundled with the unit is different as you can see from the above picture however, the temperature on the 4000+ barely reached 50° C under heavy load. Here’s a CPU-Z screenshot of the CPU:
The other CPU that AMD launched today is the FX-55 and unfortunately, they were not able to send a single media sample to the Middle East which is a bit of a shame as it certainly is one of the fastest growing markets and AMD recently opened an office here in Dubai as well. Since there really isn’t anything new about the CPU, lets head straight to the benchmarks by introducing the testbed.
Motherboard:
MSI nForce3-250GB Socket 939, Abit DuraMax AA8
Memory:
2 x 512MB CorsairDDR-400, 2 x Corsair DDR 533 Memory Modules
VGA Card:
nVidia GeForce 6800GT
Optical/Hard Drives:
ASUS 52X CDRW, Western Digital 10,000RPM 36GB Raptor Serial-ATA
Sound Card:
Creative Audigy2
Operating System:
Windows XP Professional SP1
For comparison, we’ve chosen the Athlon64 3500+ and FX-53 CPUs along with the fastest P4 CPU we have at the moment- the 3.4GHz LGA 775. Memory timings were set to SPD which resulted in 2.0-5-2-2 for DDR modules and 3.0-3-3-8 for DDR2 modules. The following applications were tested:
SiSoft Sandra 2003:
Memory Bandwidth Benchmarks
PC Mark 04:
CPU and Memory related Benchmarks
Quake3 Arena:
High Quality Settings at 1024x768 Resolution
Doom 3
Built-in demo1 at high quality settings with 1024x768 resolution
Counter Strike Source:
Built-in benchmark at 1024x768 resolution
3D Mark 2001SE:
Default settings using the latest build.
Unreal Tournament 2003:
Using the built-in benchmarking app in the downloaded demo, we ran the BotMatch & Flyby at 1024x768
Aquamark3:
Default Settings
Audio/Video Encoding:
AutoGK with Divx Codec for Pirates of the Carribean Chapter 14 as well as PC Mark's built-in Audio/Video benchmarks
Sysmark 2004:
Office Productivity and Internet Content Creation
3D Workstation:
SpecView Perf 8.01 at default settings.
If you would like for us to add any additional benchmarking software, please email us at suggestions@tbreak.com. Lets get started
