picCOLOR, Movie Maker 2.1, MP3 encoding, Cinebench 2003
picCOLOR v4.0
Multi-core CPUs do best in picCOLOR, an image analysis program provided to HEXUS by the Fibus Institute. Thanks to Dr. Mueller, picCOLOR's author, we can analyse picCOLOR's main program loops to see where new performance is found. FX-57 seems to find its increases, relative to FX-55 and scaled with clock speed, in FPU-intensive functions. The San Diego core's improvements in areas other than core frequency are therefore hidden. 2800MHz does all the work.
Movie Maker 2.1
Movie Maker 2.1 performance in our custom encoding test scales linearly with clock speed.
MP3 encoding
Our MP3 encoding test uses a multi-threading aware Intel C compiler to optimise LAME's codebase in order to take advantage of parallelising opportunities afforded to you by HyperThreading, dual-core and dual-chip SMP systems.
FX-57's performance scales almost exactly with CPU speed, compared to FX-57. It's the fastest AMD processor yet tested by HEXUS in our LAME encoding test, by the expected margin.
Cinebench 2003
Cinebench 2003 favours Intel's processors when there's only a single core or HyperThreading to make use of. FX-57 is usefully faster than FX-55 in Maxon's software renderer with Athlon X2 4800+ monstering everything else on the list. FX-57 is the fastest single-core AMD processor yet tested in Cinebench by HEXUS, as expected.
