AMD Athlon 64 FX-57: Sunny San Diego

by Dave Altavilla — Monday, June 27, 2005, 12:04 AM EDT

This early Monday morning we step you through an overview of the killer single-core performance that the new AMD Athlon FX-57 is made of.

AMD took the Athlon 64 FX architecture down a notch in process geometry, cranked up the clock speed another 200MHz, goosed the memory controller and dropped in SSE3 instructions. The results speak for themselves.

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David Altavilla

Dave Altavilla is the founder, Editor In Chief and Publisher of HotHardware.com. With decades of experience as a semiconductor sales engineer, Dave Altavilla founded HotHardware.com over 25 years ago. Dave is also a published contributor to various technology-based publications and is a featured Tech Analyst expert on various network media shows.