AMD Athlon 64 X2

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 AM2 Processor Family
3. Installation
4. Tests
5. Everest Ultimate Edition and SiSoft Sandra
6. PCMARK05 and 3DMARK05
7. Science Mark 2.0 and Nreo Digital
8. CINEBENCH and SuperPI
9. F.E.A.R. and Prey
10. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Half Life 2
11. Overclocking
12. Conclusion

CINEBENCH is the free benchmarking tool for Windows and Mac OS based on the powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D. Consequently, the results of tests conducted using CINEBENCH 9.5 carry significant weight when analyzing a computer’s performance in everyday use.

Especially a system’s CPU and the OpenGL capabilities of its graphics card are put through their paces (even multiprocessor systems with up to 16 dedicated CPUs or processor cores). During the testing procedure, all relevant data is ascertained with which the performance of different computers could subsequently be compared, regardless of the operating system. All tests were done with the latest available build (R9.5), and the sum of each subtest is displayed in the following chart.

In this test, the XE6800 and E6600 were faster than the X2 4600+ by 20.59% and 10.05% respectively. Looking at the RAW CPU tests, the XE6800 is 35.00% and E6600 11.00% faster than the AMD X2 4600+.

SuperPI has become a utility to benchmark modern systems. In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI.

The software offers up to 32M calculations of PI numbers. For all CPUs we tested up to 8M calculations and summed them for a total score.

Intel's XE6800 is probably the fastest, currently sold CPU, and SuperPI is a good example that shows its performance. It is 48.94% faster than the AMD X2 4600+, and 39.54% than the Intel E600.