Over the following page we'll be running the socket AM2 AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ and Athlon64 FX-62 processors though PCSTATS standard set of gaming, productivity, and 64-bit processor benchmarks. There are a wide variety of gaming and synthetic benchmarks here to illustrate what kind of performance boost users can expect from these latest, dual core 64-bit capable K8 processors.

The AMD Athlon64 FX-62 processor that PCSTATS will be testing is based on the 'ACBYF' stepping and was built in week 04 of 2006. The Athlon64 X2 5000+ processor is based on stepping 'ADB4F' and built in week 03 of 2006. Both CPUs are being benchmarked with Corsair's XMS2-8500 low latency DDR-2 RAM on a socket AM2 Asus M2N32SLI-DLX motherboard equiped with the nVidia nForce 590 SLI chipset.

The specific details of how the AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ and FX-62 processor test systems were configured for benchmarking - including the hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions - are indicated below. In the third and fourth columns are the general specs for the AMD and Intel reference platforms that the dual core Athlon64 X2 5000+ and FX-62 processors is being compared against.

Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results on the next several pages.

PCSTATS Test System Configuations

test system #1 test system #2 amd reference systems intel reference system processor: amd athlon64 x2 5000+ amd athlon64 fx-62 amd Athlon64 FX-60 AMD Athlon64 4000+ Intel Pentium D 840 Intel Pentium D 940 Socket: Socket AM2 Socket AM2 Socket 939 Socket 775 Clock Speed: 13 x 200 MHz = 2.6 GHz 13 x 225 MHz = 2.92 GHz 14 x 200 MHz = 2.8 GHz 14 x 220 MHz = 3.08 GHz 13 x 200 MHz = 2.6 GHz 12 x 200 MHz = 2.4 GHz 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz Chipset: nForce 590 SLI nForce4 SLI Intel 975X Motherboards: Asus M2N32SLI-DLX Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI) Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H Videocard: 2x MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E in SLI Memory: 2x 1024MB Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR-2 2x 512MB OCZ Gold GX PC3500 DDR 2x 1024MB Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR-2 Memory Latency: 4-4-4-12 2-2-2-5 5-5-5-15 Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Athlon64 FX-62 Reference Heatsink Athlon64 4000+ Reference Heatsink Thermaltake Jungle 512 Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Microsoft WindowsXP x64 Edition nVIDIA Forceware NF4 9.34 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Microsoft WindowsXP x64 Edition nVIDIA Forceware NF4 6.70 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Microsoft WindowsXP x64 Edition Intel INF 7.2.2 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: 32-Bit Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 SiSoft Sandra 2005 Maya Render Test Super Pi 1.1 PCMark05 3DMark05 3DMark06 Doom 3 Quake 4 FarCry FEAR 64-Bit Benchmarks: PCMark04 PCMark05 Cinebench 2003 ScienceMark 2.0 Mini-GZIP DiVX Encoding Dual Core 3D Tests: Prime95 + 3DMark05 Prime95 + Doom 3 Prime95 + FEAR