Benchmarks III
If you think about it, most of the Athlon 64 FX's qualities would lend themselves well to gaming. A large, efficient cache with better TLBs to store and recover frequently used data and low latency DRAM access is what present games, that aren't totally GPU bound, call out for. Let's see how the FX-51 fares.
Breaking the 20,000 mark barrier with completely stock settings. The FX-51 and Opteron 242 do exceptionally well in bandwidth-intensive tests such as the two lobby tests, which is expected. There's little more to say other than marvel at the speed and scores. The Pentium 4 has been dethroned as the 3DMark 2001SE champion, it seems. If you want a breakdown of the FX's impressive 20,000+ mark score and the Opteron's impressive showing, head here and here. Notice how the 1.6GHz Opteron, by virtue of impressive core enhancements, is able to keep pace with a 2.2GHz XP3200+.
Another 'monster' win for the FX-51. It may sitting on a workstation-class motherboard with ECC memory, but it's hella' fast at gaming. By now you should know why.
Comanche 4 has never run too well on AMD CPUs until now. The FX-51 remedies that quite nicely, thankyou, and the 1.6GHz Opteron manages a very respectable frame-rate if you take its low clock speed into account. AMD's True Performance Initiative isn't such a bad idea, then.
