AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU Review

X-bit labs reviews a retail purchased Athlon 64 3200+ and compares perfromance using an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe (i875P), ASUS SK8N (NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150), ASUS K8V Deluxe (VIA K8T800) and an ABIT NF7-S 2.0 (NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400):

So far AMD has released only one processor model from the new Athlon 64 family with the 3200+ performance rating. This CPU works at the actual 2GHz frequency, which is 200MHz lower than Athlon 64 FX-51 supports. Later on AMD will also release a faster modification of its Athlon 64 CPU with 3400+ performance rating and 2.2GHz actual core clock frequency. However, this can hardly be expected to happen soon. Why so, you will understand later on.

The major goal of our test session will be to find out how fast the new AMD Athlon 64 3200+ can actually be. For this purpose we compared the performance of our processor with that of Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2GHz, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and AMD Athlon 64 FX-51. Besides, we also added the results for AMD Opteron 146 processor working at the same 2GHz frequency as Athlon 64 3200+, but featuring the dual-channel memory controller similar to that used in Athlon 64 FX. It will allow us to evaluate how big is the contribution of the dual-channel memory controller to the overall performance of Athlon 64 FX.