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Benchmark
Results :::...
Gaming
is where the FX57 is at home, and it's the key area with
AMD's marketing people too who herald the FX as "the
world’s most Extreme PC processor for gaming".
Doom
3:::...
For
many it was the game to end all games, for me it was a bitter
disappointment, but hey, different strokes and all that.
In terms of CPU power Doom 3 laps it up and will take all
you can throw at it, even if all the splendor is shrouded
in dark shadows so you can't fully appreciate it.
Doom3-
32bit
Doom3
- 64bit
Not
Run
Far
Cry:::...
One
of my personal fave games of the past 12 months, and interestingly
one of the few for which a 64bit patch is available, though
I didn't use it on this occasion.
Far
Cry - 32bit
The
FX advantage is clear, 10 frames per second to the FX at
8x6 and 10x7.
Far
Cry - 64bit
Not
Run
There's
no denying the numbers. Both Far Cry and Doom III see huge
leads of at least 10% across the board on the FX57, other
than where CPU limited of course.
SPECviewperf
7.1:::...
SPECviewperf®
is a portable OpenGL performance benchmark program written
in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and significant
contributions were made by SGI, Digital (Compaq, HP), 3Dlabs
(Creative Labs) and other SPECopcSM project group members.
SPECviewperf provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking
OpenGL performance. Currently, the program runs on most
implementations of UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Linux.
SPECviewperf
8.1 is now available and has added support of Linux 32 and
64, Solaris X86, and Windows 64. I didn't have chance to
check this out prior to this review thanks to their rather
lethargic server speed so I'll just publish the results
from 7.1.
SPECviewperf
-
32bit
SPECviewperf
-
64bit
In
keeping with the pattern that's definitely emerging we see
how WindowsXP 64-bit levels the playing field and lets the
X2 and 4000+ approach and on occasion exceed the results
produced by the FX57.
Under
32bit Windows however the FX57's score is up around 12%
on average on the X2 which ran in second.
This
suggests that AMD's focus is probably accurate and that
for the hardcore gamer, the FX is very much the clever choice.
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