AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

Although the AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 is fast, there are still certain areas that could be further improved. While AMD's Athlon 64 core is known to be fantastic at integer performance, it still fell prey to certain applications that depend a lot on the processor's floating-point performance. Applications such as video encoding and certain Internet Content Creation applications did not really benefit much with the Athlon 64 FX-57. However, much of its shortcomings on floating point were fortunately made up with its superior integer performance...

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