New Athlon 64 FX-57 chip
p2pnet.net News:- Three words sum up AMD’s new Athlon 64 FX-57 processor.
‘Fast’ and ‘very expensive’.
Beyond that, “In essence, there isn’t a great deal of new ground to cover with the Athlon 64 FX-57; it is 200MHz faster than the FX-55, meaning that it is clocked at a healthy 2800MHz,” says bit-tech.net. “One would expect the former to deliver slightly higher performance than the latter, as with the gap between FX-53 and FX-55 that we experienced at the back end of last year.
“However, that is not all that is going on with the Athlon 64 FX-57. It is built on a fabrication process that is new ground for Athlon 64 FX-series processors, making it unique in comparison to other members of the FX-series, which have thus far been manufactured on a 130-nanometre process until now. Along with the process change, there is also the inclusion of SSE3 instructions, an improved memory controller and improved multimedia performance.”
AMD says all Athlon 64 FX pricing is in 1,000-unit PIB quantities at $1,031, and systems based on the processor are expected to be available from:
Europe: Amitech, Atelco, Dacco, Evesham, Fox, Hyrican, Komplett, Levi, Mesh, and Scan
US and Canada: ABS, AFT, Alienware, Bass, BOXX, Canada Computers, Cyberpower, Elite PC, Falcon Northwest, Hypersonic, Micro Center, Might Micro, Monarch, Nor-Tech, Now Micro, PC Club, Planet Computers, Polywell, Systemax, Totally Awesome, Velocity Micro, Voodoo PC, Zipzoomfly, and ZT Group
Japan: Am-system Co., Bless Corporation, and Thirdwave Corporation
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See:-
bit-tech.net – AMD Athlon 64 FX-57, June 27, 2005
AMD – AMD Unveils World’s Ultimate PC Processor for 3D Games, June 27, 2005
