AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 review

The FX60 has stolen the crown in almost every single benchmark we ran, and did so at power consumption levels that were partially below that of its own, lower clocked brethren.

The FX60 does not need any miracles, it is fast enough as it is and essentially without competition in raw performance. If a performance per Watt metric is applied, naturally, single core CPUs are somewhat better since they don’t carry the overhead of a second core under reduced load. On the other hand, even in that case, The FX60 has beaten all our expectations, running cool, quiet and at low power while delivering stellar performance. What else could we want? Well, there is this little problem with the price of US$ 1031,- at launch…

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