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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and Athlon 64 FX-51
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Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX
  Availability:
Immediately
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  Date:
9-23-2003
  Price:
$439 / $799

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There are 4 parts to this review, please use the pulldown below to browse sections or simply hit "Next" at the bottom of each section to continue


The Benchmarks

First off the bat is the venerable 3DMark 2001 SE benchmark. Unlike 3DMark 2003, this application will allow you to see just how much of a role the processor plays in pushing these scores higher and higher.

As you can see, the performance increase with the Athlon 64 over the Athlon XP 3200+ is substantial. You would need to tack on an extra 300MHz, thereby making the Athlon XP a 3800+ just to equal the performance of the Athlon 64 3200+.

We overclocked the Athlon 64 3200+ and the Athlon 64 FX-51 just to see what it would do. As you can see the Athlon 64 3200+ gained in performance when we moved it to 2150MHz, but the Athlon 64 FX-51 did not move at all when we moved it to 2310MHz.


 

 

As we stated earlier, the 3DMark 2003 benchmark does not really move much with different processors. It is more a test of the performance level of the video card rather than the entire system. We have included the CPU score rendered with this benchmark though.


 

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Yes we know, this benchmark has seen its last days, but it really does show off the added memory bandwidth from CPU to CPU. In the case of the Athlon 64 3200+ and the Athlon 64 FX-51, they blew the doors off of the processors they are to replace. You would need an iceberg to cool the Athlon XP enough to clock it to the necessary levels to compete with the Athlon 64. An interesting note is how well the Quake III test took to the extra 200MHz on the Athlon 64 FX-51 over the Athlon 64 3200+.



Here is another demonstration of the power the Athlon 64 architecture. The added memory bandwidth just takes off in thisL benchmark.


 

This CPU intensive benchmark shows once again how powerful the new Athlon 64 and Athlon FX processors really are. Taking into account that the Athlon XP 3200+ and the Athlon 64 FX-51 are operating at the same core frequency (2.2 GHz) there is no doubt there is plenty of power under the hood of the Athlon 64. It looks like the Comanche 4 benchmark really likes those extra MHz that the Athlon 64 FX-51 has over the Athlon 64 3200+.


 

Now we see a situation where the advantage of the Athlon 64 is not as sizable as other cases compared to the Athlon XP.


 

 

We were absolutely blown away by these UT2003 scores. UT2003 tends to scale with processor speed, and given the fact the frequencies of the Athlon 64 and Athlon XP processors represented here are so close, an increase of this magnitude was not expected. Here we have more than a 20% jump in the move to the Athlon 64 CPU.


 

Nothing really new here in this synthetic benchmark. The higher the CPU clock, the higher the score. Obviously the Athlon FX comes out on top. The real revelation here is the advantage in memory the integrated controller gives the Athlon 64.


 


This benchmark that is based on Cinema 4D - 3D Software performs a series of test and gauges the time it takes each system to render the specific scene. This graph shows the CPU Rendering portion of the test. As you can see the higher clocked of the two Athlon 64 processors takes the lead in the application, followed by the Athlon 64 3200+ and the XP 3200+ coming in a close 3rd.


 

This series ofL applications shows a different story it seems with each application is performs. For the most part we can say the Athlon 64 FX-51 wins, but with some healthy competition from its younger siblings.



 




 




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