The FX-60 is probably the last Socket 939 based FX CPU from AMD and instead of closing this chapter with a bang, it seems as though AMD is saving all their fireworks for their upcoming M2 socket based CPUs.
Compared to the FX-57 which is clocked at 2.8GHz, the FX-60 drops the speed down to 2.6GHz, however, AMD adds a second core. So basically, the FX-60 is a 2.6GHz dual core CPU with 1MB cache for each core- or 200MHz faster than similarly spec’ed the X2-4800. The following are details of the new CPU
| Frequency |
2.6GHz |
| Socket |
Socket 939 |
| Process technology |
90nm, SOI |
| Thermal Power |
110W |
| Number of Transistors |
233M |
| Dies Size |
199mm2 |
| 64-bit Instruction Set |
Yes, AMD64 Technology |
| 32-bit Instruction Set |
Yes, x86 ISA |
| HyperTransport™ support |
Up to 8GB/s |
| Integrated DDR Memory Controller |
Yes, Dual-channel |
| Integrated Northbridge |
Yes, 128-bit data past @ CPU core frequency |
| High Performance On-chip Cache |
L1:128KB + 128KB
L2: 1024KB + 1024KB |
| 3D and Multimedia Instructions |
3DNow! ™ Professional Technology, SSE/SSE2/SSE3 |
Lets get to the number straight away- the following is the testbed that was used for benchmarking CPUs
| Motherboard: |
DFI LAN Party nF4 SLI for Athlon64 CPUs
ASUS P5N32-SLI for Intel CPUs |
| Memory: |
2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 Memory Modules for Athlon64 CPUs
2x512MB OCZ DDR2-667 Memory Modules for Intel CPUs |
| VGA Card: |
nVidia GeForce 7800GTX Reference Card |
| Optical/Hard Drives: |
Generic 8X DVDRW, Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM/8MB Cache SATA |
| Monitor: |
LG 19" Monitor |
| Operating System: |
Windows XP Professional SP2 |
| Motherboard Drivers: |
nVidia Chipset Drivers |
| VGA Drivers: |
nVidia Forceware 81.89 |
We've compared the FX-60 with most of the high-end CPUs available to us- the Athlon64 FX-57 and X2-4800+ on the AMD side and the 3.8GHz Pentium 680, 840D and XE 840D (3.2GHz each) on the Pentium4 platform. The following applications were used
| Synthetic Benchmarks |
PC Mark 2005 Overall, PC Mark 2005 CPU, PC Mark 2005 Memory |
| Graphics Benchmarks: |
3D Mark 2001SE, 3D Mark 2003, 3D Mark 2005, and Aquamark3- Default Settings. |
| Full Games: |
Counterstrike: Source, Far Cry and UT2004 at 1280x1024 resolution |
| Audio/Video Encoding: |
WorldBench: Jukebox, WB: Microsoft Media Encoder, WB: Adobe Premiere, AutoGK with Pirates of Carribian DVD, PC Mark: Audio/Video Multitasking test |
| 3D Workstation Apps: |
3D Studio MAX 7 with Max Tests, Cinebench 2003 |
| General Applications: |
WorldBench: Adobe Photoshop, Ahead Nero, Microsoft Office, Mozilla and Winzip |
If you would like for us to add any additional benchmarking software, please email us at suggestions@tbreak.com
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