
New models for this platform have been recently announced – Athlon 64 4000+ and Athlon 64 FX-55.

They differ from their predecessors primarily by the increased frequency. However these days AMD manufactures a lot of models, which differ not only by their frequency, but by the L2 cache capacity and memory controller features, so it's rather difficult to choose a processor by these parameters.Įffect of this parameter on the overall performance is obvious. Especially if you take into account that the prices of models equal in frequency may differ more than twofold.Ĭonsidering the increasing popularity of this platform, we thought it a good idea to compare all possible AMD64 processors at 2.4 GHz and try to figure out what effect the above mentioned chip parameters have on various applications.
