AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: Dual cores reaches the FX series

Athlon 64 FX-60 is the latest addition to AMD’s processor assortment and now that it has launched a new flagship to its extreme FX series it has chosen to go with dual cores for the first time. It has earlier launched its Athlon 64 X2 series with dual cores but the FX series has so far been single core to perform as good as possible with games and benchmarks. Now it seems that AMD has felt that the time has come to use dual cores with the FX series as well. Athlon 64 FX-60 has two cores working at 2.6GHz each which means that FX-60 has 200MHz higher frequency than Athlon 64 X2 4800+ but 200MHz less than Athlon 64 FX-57, which however only has one core. What this actually means for the performance of AMD’s new flagship and how it stands up to Intel’s dual core monster Intel 955XE can be found in our latest review.

“The FX processors have been granted unlocked multiplier and 1MB L2 cache, but have also been single core. AMD launched its X2 series in the middle of 2005 which is AMD’s first desktop processor with dual cores and it has now chosen to send the successor of the FX-57 down the same path.”

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