A Beginning And An End : AMD’s Athlon64 FX-60 Processor : Review

Quote: The Athlon64 FX-60, the latest member of the FX family which we're looking at today, further solidifies AMD's stance that single-core processors are on their way out. AMD is folding the Athlon64 FX and X2 lines together for the most part, as the FX-60 is the first FX model to be based on AMD's dual-core "Toledo" architecture. However, in the move from a single-core to a dual-core architecture, AMD has not sacrificed much in terms of clock speed. The previous generation FX-57 processor ran at a clock speed of 2.8 GHz with 1 MB of cache, whereas this new FX-60 dual-core processor has two cores running at 2.6 GHz, each with their own 1 MB of cache to utilize (2 MB total). With each core running at a brisk 2.6 GHz, the FX-60 should be able to maintain excellent single-threaded application performance while also providing the smoothness of SMP. Let's see if they are successful.

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