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Review: AMD Socket AM2: Athlon 64 FX-62 and nForce5 590 SLI

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 23 May 2006, 05:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Single-Threaded Tests

As with our FX-60 review, our CPU test suite is nicely split into single- and multi-threaded benchmarks and applications. Single-threaded go first.

Realstorm 2004

realstorm

Whoops, AM2 slips up slightly here with FX-62, FX-60 posting good performance from the AMD DDR camp. It's the exception to the rule though, as you'll see.

HEXUS Crypto

crypto

62 @ 60 matches 60, with 62 posting the best Crypto figures we've ever seen. The execution core resources see to that, our Crypto test totally agnostic to the memory subsystem and very hungry for clock. Clock.