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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 for benchmarking included CPU Mark 2, Nuclearus Multi Core, PC Mark 2005, Realstorm 2004, Science Mark 2 and Super Pi."

TAKE MULTI-TASKING TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL WITH THE ATHLON64 X2 4200!

"The AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core puts the power of dual-core technology on the desktop. Dual-core processors contain two processing cores, residing on one chip, that perform calculations on two streams of data, thereby increasing efficiency and speed while running multiple programs and the new generation of multi-threaded software."

"For the end-user this means a significant increase in response and performance when running multiple applications simultaneously. The AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor outperforms the highest-performing AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ single-core processor on multi-tasking benchmarks by up to 30%."

CPUMARK 2

HIGHER IS BETTER

	4498
	4456

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "CPUMARK 2 is another disappointing result for the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 when it only outperformed the AMD Athlon64 3500 by 0.9%."

NUCLEARUS MULTI CORE

OVERALL

	5260
	3718

ALU

	4892
	4853

FPU

	3912
	3729

MULTI THREAD

	5187
	3243

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "When properly supported Dual Core can deliver an impressive performance increase over Single Core as shown in this Nuclearus Multi Core benchmark. Overall the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 outperformed the AMD Athlon64 3500 by an impressive 29%. The ALU and FPU results only show a small 1% to 5% advantage for the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 but the Multi-Thread benchmark shows how impressive Dual Core is when the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 outperforms the AMD Athlon64 3500 by a very impressive 37%!"

PC MARK 2005

CPU

	4489
	3210

MEMORY

	4008
	4088

GRAPHICS

	5675
	5690

HARD DRIVE

	2827
	2885

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "PC Mark 2005 CPU delivers an impressive victory for the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 of 28% over the AMD Athlon64 3500. Dual Core Technology doesn't seem to increase the performance a great deal with the Memory, Graphics or Hard Drive and it's results are the same as the AMD Athlon64 3500."

REALSTORM 2004

HIGHER IS BETTER

	5410
	5354

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "Realstorm 2004 is another benchmark which doesn't seem to use Dual Core which means the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 and the AMD Athlon64 3500 both perform within 1% of each other."

SCIENCE MARK 2

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER)

	67
	73

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "Science Mark 2 shows a decent 9% advantage for the AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 over the AMD Athlon64 3500."

SUPER PI

4MB (LOWER IS BETTER)

	192
	191

AMD ATHLON64 X2 4200 MANCHESTER AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE

COMMENT - "SuperPI doesn't show any performance advantage for the Dual Core AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 when compared to the Single Core AMD Athlon64 3500."

INDEX

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