FX 55?

[GreatArtist]

Is the FX 55 equivalent to a 5.5 gigahertz P4?

 

[Wes Newell]

Is the FX 55 equivalent to a 5.5 gigahertz P4?

No. Closer to a 3.4Ghz P4.

 

[Walter Holler]

Am 18.12.2006 7:12 Uhr schrieb "Wes Newell"

No. Closer to a 3.4Ghz P4.

Is that a fact or an assumption?

 

[Wes Newell]

Am 18.12.2006 7:12 Uhr schrieb "Wes Newell"

Is that a fact or an assumption?

It's a fact as stated. It would also be a fact if I had said closer to a
4GHz P4 since it doesn't specify a specific speed. AMD would have probably
given it a 4200+ rating, which IMO would have been too high. Having now
looked at how it benchmarks, I'd give it a 3800+ rating even though it's
200MHz faster than the AMD rated 3800+. You can decide for yourself how
you want to rate it by using the cpu charts on tomshardware and compare it
to P4's in different benchmarks.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

Is the FX 55 equivalent to a 5.5 gigahertz P4?

It depends on what you are doing. For the kind of things I do (Verilog
simulations), the A64 with 1M caches is about twice as fast as a P4 on a
clock for clock basis so an FX55 is about a 5GHz P4. The Core2 Duo with a
4M cache is about 25% faster than the Athlon64 on a clock for clock basis.