AMD Athlon64 FX-62 and Athlon64 X2-5000+ are both dual core, support DDR-2 667/800 MHz RAM, virtualization, and install into a new 940-pin socket called 'AM2'.
SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream
office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize
the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive
research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the
latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark
2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of
activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may
encounter. In addition with extensive validation across multiple platforms,
users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance
comparison.
SYSmark2004
Internet Overall:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
282
Intel Pentium D 940
287
AMD Athlon64 4000+
232
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
361
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
352
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
375
3D Creation:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
251
Intel Pentium D 940
257
AMD Athlon64 4000+
248
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
312
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
301
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
328
2D Creation:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
329
Intel Pentium D 940
348
AMD Athlon64 4000+
291
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
417
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
426
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
443
Web Publication
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
263
Intel Pentium D 940
265
AMD Athlon64 4000+
206
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
338
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
339
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
342
Office Overall:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
196
Intel Pentium D 940
207
AMD Athlon64 4000+
219
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
248
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
237
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
261
Communication:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
203
Intel Pentium D 940
189
AMD Athlon64 4000+
245
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
255
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
255
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
263
Document Creation:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
184
Intel Pentium D 940
223
AMD Athlon64 4000+
226
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
283
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
257
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
297
Data Analysis:
Points
Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840
196
Intel Pentium D 940
209
AMD Athlon64 4000+
189
AMD Athlon64 FX-60
209
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+
203
AMD Athlon64 FX-62
214
There's
little doubt which systems are fastest here, they have AMD stamped on the
heatspreaders. The Athlon64 X2 5000+ performs close to that of the high end
socket 939 Athlon64 FX-60. That's a pretty good result considering the later has
less cache. There is no catching the Athlon 64 FX-62 in an office oriented
content creation benchmark like Sysmark 2004 however, the FX-62 is simply the
fastest processor we've ever tested.