Athlon64 FX & Pentium 4 EE Overclocking

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited April 2004 in Science & 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

  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited April 2004
    impressive results all around, cant wait to see what they'd do with a X800 Pro
  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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 :(
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2004
    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.
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited April 2004
    Gaming performance is all well and good, but down to brass tacks.. Which is the better Folder?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    My money would be on the A64.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    :doh: I completely forgot HT!
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