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65nm vs. 90nm: AMD's Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - PAGE 2
William Henning - Monday, June 4th, 2007



In order to keep the testing as fair as possible, we will use the following test platforms:

Socket AM2:

LGA 775:

ASUS' M2N32-SLI motherboard is an excellent performer, and allows us to try very high FSB speeds.

Naturally, we also used a high-end 975X-based motherboard for our LGA775 benchmarking. In this case it was the ASUS P5B-E Premium -- a favourite of ours here.

Software used during testing consisted of the following:

  • Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
  • NVIDIA ForceWare 84.21 drivers
  • CineBench 2003
  • LAME MP3 Encoding
  • PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004
  • PC Magazine Multimedia Content Creation 2004
  • POV-Ray 3.7 beta 13
  • RightMark Memory Analyzer
  • SiSoft Sandra
  • TMPGEnc MPEG2 Encoding
  • WinRAR
  • Call of Duty
  • Comanche 4
  • Doom 3
  • Far Cry
  • Halo
  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
  • Unreal Tournament 2004

Please note that we are showing overclocked results in all the charts - we are not holding you in suspense until the end of the article. :-) We are also presenting you with a FULL set of overclocked benchmarks - our test sytems were all stable at the settings shown with air cooling. Please note that chart labels incorporate a lot of information about the test configuration. The first line shows the socket type and the model of the processor. Since all the processors shown are dual-core devices, we did not specify that on the charts.

The second line shows the "FSB/HT clock rate" x "CPU multiplier" followed by the effective DDR memory speed. Please note that all DDR2 tests were run at 4-4-4-12 timings unless otherwise specified.

Article Index

1.Introduction
2.Test Setup & Benchmarks Used
3.Business Winstone & Content Creation
4.Sandra Tests
5.RightMark Read & Write
6.RightMark Latency & Bandwidth
7.LAME MP3, TMPGEnc
8.Rendering Tests
9.Call of Duty & Commanche 4
10.Doom 3 & Halo
11.Jedi Knight & UT2004
12.Overclocking & Conclusion

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