AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
5. PCMark04
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 - Page 5
PCMark04
PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.
PCMark04 includes 4 categorized suites for benchmarking your computer. These include CPU, Graphics, Memory and a Hard Disk Drive benchmark.
Running the CPU suite benchmark, we obtained the results you can see on the chart above. According to PCMark04, the FX-55 processor offers 8% higher performance than the 3800+.
Let's examine the extended results:
CPU |
AMD Athlon 64 |
AMD Athlon 64 |
File Compression (MB/s) |
3.8 | 3.3 |
File Encryption (MB/s) |
40.3 | 37.2 |
File Uncompression (MB/s) |
31.7 | 28.9 |
Image Processing (MPixels/s) |
16.0 | 14.6 |
Grammar Check (KB/s) |
6.1 | 6.5 |
File Decryption (MB/s) |
80.3 | 74.2 |
Audio Conversion (KB/s) |
3439.8 | 3171.9 |
WMV Video Compression (FPS) |
61.1 | 56.2 |
DivX Video Compression (FPS) |
77.6 | 71.8 |
With the only exception of Grammar Check, where the 3800+ seems to be a bit faster, the FX-55 produced generally better results.
