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AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 REVIEW

"Today we will be reviewing the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 processor which uses the Manchester core and we will compare it to the AMD Athlon64 3500 Venice. Software used was CPU Bench 2003."

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER


SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200
AMD ATHLON64 3500
VIDEO CARD CONNECT3D RADEON X1950 PRO
ATI DRIVER CATALYST v7.7
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0C


CPU BENCH 2003

OVERALL

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER8988
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE8957

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "CPU Bench 2003 benchmark the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 delivers a tiny 0.3% victory over the AMD Athlon64 3500."

CPU BENCH 2003

CPU ALU

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER7868
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE7825

CPU FPU

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER5852
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE5790

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "CPU ALU benchmark shows the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 delivering a 0.5% victory over the AMD Athlon64 3500. CPU FPU benchmark shows the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 delivering a small 1.1% victory over the AMD Athlon64 3500."

CPU BENCH 2003

FPU SINGLE PRECISION

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER6160
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE6095

FPU DOUBLE PRECISION

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER5544
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE5486

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "The FPU Single Precision and Double Precision results are very close between the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 and AMD Athlon64 3500. However the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 delivers a small increase over the AMD Athlon64 3500 of between 1% to 1.1%."

CPU BENCH 2003

RAM SIMD ALU BANDWIDTH

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER5499
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE5275

RAM SIMD FPU BANDWIDTH

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER4995
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE4883

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "We finally start to see more of a difference between the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 and AMD Athlon64 3500 processors. Using these Ram Simd bandwidth benchmarks the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 outperforms the AMD Athlon64 3500 of 2.2% to 4.1%."

CPU BENCH 2003

SW RAYTRACING BENCHMARK

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER2873
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE2800

D3D SW RENDERING

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER2799
AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE2738

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "Raytracing should show a good performance difference between Single Core and Dual Core. However it seems that CPU Bench 2003 doesn't make good use of Dual Core because the results are still fairly close together. However the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 still manages to outperform the AMD Athlon64 3500 by 2.2% to 2.5%."

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 REVIEW

PAGE 1 - INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - SYSTEM INFORMATION AND CPU BENCH 2003
PAGE 3 - CPU MARK 2, NUCLEARUS MULTI CORE, PC MARK 2005, SUPER PI ETC
PAGE 4 - 3DMARK 2005, 3DMARK 2006, DOOM 3, LOST PLANET, X3 REUNION ETC

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