PCMark04 measures the system performance by running a set of 10 tasks like video compression, audio conversion, file cryptography, calculations, etc, giving a numeric score. The results from this test we show on the graph below.

Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved a performance at the same level of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz on this program, being 6.38% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 8.18% faster than Athlon 64 FX-55, 11.24% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz ”E“ (”Prescott“), 11.53% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 14.88% faster than Athlon 64 4000+, 16.20% faster than Athlon 64 3800+, 16.70% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz, 35.91% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ and 41.75% faster than Athlon XP 3200+.