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Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 and Model 3800+ socket-939 CPUs

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 June 2004, 00:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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WAV, Realstorm, KribiBench, XviD



Crunching WAVs into 192kb/s MP3 doesn't generally have much to do with memory bandwidth or latency unless we're talking about a Pentium 4 Prescott. That's why all three 2.4GHz Athlon 64s produce identical times.



Another strong showing for the debut S939 CPUs. Again, both beat out a S940 FX-53. The gains from not using registered memory are immediate.



L2 cache, for once, does make a significant difference in our KribiBench test. It's one benchmark where AMD's CPUs don't do so well in relation to Intel's.



Another case of S940 looking 'slow'.