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AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 CPU Review


Product
CPU
Date
26th June 2005
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Price
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor $1031 each (PIB)
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Benchmark Results :::...

TMPGEnc:::...

TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depending on your purpose.TMPGEnc, or "TSUNAMI-MPEG Encoder", as it used to be called, TMPGEnc supports dual-CPUs for filtering and part of the MPEG encoding procedure. 3D Now! and SSE are also supported.

As with every other time we've run this benchmark, a 692MB *.avi file was encoded using the following parameters:

Needless to say, the lower the encoding time the better the performance. Here's how it all shped up:

TMPGEnc - 32bit

 

Even allowing for the fact that TMPGEnc takes advantage of the X2's dual cores for filtering and part of the MPEG encoding procedure, the FX57 shaves a significant percentage off the overal encoding time.

 

TMPGEnc - 64bit

Once again we see the move from 32bit to 64bit leave the FX standing, or more accurately going backwards. As both the X2 and 4000+ step up a gear, albeit not much of a gear in the X2's case, the FX's rendering time increases from 414 seconds to 472 second.


 

PiFast:::...

  • Computes decimal digits of pi, e=exp(1), sqrt2, with the high limit of 17 billion digits.
  • Very fast (fastest pi program available on the web - July 5 2003).
  • Much more economical in memory than other pi programs.
  • Parameters can be used to fit in the memory machine (memory saved <-> time lost).
  • Able to handle disk memory for very large computations, permitting to compute much more digits than could be contained in the physical memory.
  • Very large computations can be done in several chunks.
  • Can compute a lot of other predefined constants (log(2), zeta(3), ...) with many formulas.
  • User can define his own formula to compute a constant.
  • Can compress directly the output result and later, decompress all or part of it.

The following method was used:

 

PiFast - 32bit

 

 

PiFast - 64bit

 

 

The switch to 64bit does nothing for calculation speed, except for the FX57 that is, which gets slower.

 

 
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