Athlon64 FX & Pentium 4 EE Overclocking

19 Apr, 2004 at 8:08pm ET Article published in Tech

Tom’s Hardware freezes both the Athlon FX-53 (2.4ghz) and the P4 3.4EE (3.4ghz) to -50C and pits them head to head!

The Athlon64 FX’s integrated memory controller repeatedly showed off its strengths. Whenever users want to play 3D games (Comanche, Serious Sam, Splinter Cell, Unreal Tournament 2003, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and X2), the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition is only runner-up. Also, the FX holds a sizeable lead when it comes to data compression with WinRAR, compilation of a C++ project with Visual Studio.net and Mathematica.

On the other hand, we should also point out the advantages of the Pentium 4 EE. Even though it cannot keep pace with the measured memory performance of the FX, there are many applications that benefit from a large cache, the high clock rate, and, especially, from Hyper Threading: 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, Cool Edit Pro, XMPEG with DivX, MainConcept MPEG Encoder, TMPGEnc, SYSmark 2004 and Microsoft’s Movie Maker.

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Comments

19 Apr 2004 ~ 10:21pm leishi85 looks like the athlon 64 fx at 2.9 gh won almost all of the benchmarks except for couple of those encoding benchmarks, a big win for AMD!! yah

they won even with a difference of 1.1ghz
19 Apr 2004 ~ 11:00pm TheBaron impressive results all around, cant wait to see what they'd do with a X800 Pro
20 Apr 2004 ~ 7:47am citrixmeta AMD Athlon 64 FX Platform Asus SK8N Rev: 1.03
(Socket 940) VIA K8T800 Chipset
BIOS: 1002 BETA 019
Broadcom BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

the SK8N is the Nvidia chipset, SK8V is the K8T800 chipset.
Must be a typo
20 Apr 2004 ~ 8:19am Thrax The multimedia apps win because they have SSE3.

New revisions of the AFX will have SSE3, and further editions of the listed programs will be optimized for the AFX core.

There's nowhere to go but up for the AFX, and that makes me happy.
20 Apr 2004 ~ 8:27am mmonnin Sweet, the P4s have alway on the encoding benchmarks because of the higher clockspeed and SSE optimizations. Now at least they both will be on par with the optimizations.
20 Apr 2004 ~ 8:32am DogSoldier Gaming performance is all well and good, but down to brass tacks.. Which is the better Folder?
20 Apr 2004 ~ 9:22am GHoosdum My money would be on the A64.
20 Apr 2004 ~ 9:26am Thrax At this time, my money is on the P4 due to hyperthreading.

Though HT's value is still questionable in other applications, it is undoubtedly a boon as far as folding is concerned.
20 Apr 2004 ~ 9:29am GHoosdum I completely forgot HT!