We measured the overall performance of this motherboard using SYSmark2002, which is a software that simulates the use of real-world applications. Thus, we consider this the best software to measure, in practical terms, the system performance.

The benchmarks are divided into two groups: Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. The programs used on Internet Content Creation batch are the following: Dreamweaver 4.0, Photoshop 6.0.1, Premiere 6.0, Flash 5 and Windows Media Encoder. The programs used on Office Productivity batch are the following: Word 2002, Excel 2002, PowerPoint 2002, Outlook 2002, Access 2002, Netscape Communicator 6, NaturallySpeaking 5, VirusScan 5.13 and WinZip 8.0.

The software delivers specific results for each batch and also an overall performance result, all in a specific SYSmark202 unit.

You can check the results on the graph below.

Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved an overall performance similar to Athlon 64 FX-55 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz. It was 6.59% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 6,91% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 7.23% faster than Athlon 64 4000+, 10.90% faster than Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz, 12.66% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz “E” (“Prescott”), 13.38% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz, 14.10% faster than Athlon 64 3800+, 27.60% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ and 35.88% faster than Athlon XP 3200+.

In Office Productivity test, Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved a performance similar to Athlon 64 FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+, being 5.74% faster than Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz, 8.40% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 11.21% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz and Athlon 64 3800+, 15.70% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz “E” (“Prescott”) and Pentium 4 3 GHz, 17.27% faster than Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz, 24,04% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ and 25.24% faster than Athlon XP 3200+

Analyzing Internet Content Creation results alone, Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved a performance similar to Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, being 4.48% faster than Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz, 5.15% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 7.46% faster than Athlon 64 FX-55, 9.62% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz “E” (“Prescott”), 10.86% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz, 14.75% faster than Athlon 64 4000+, 16.95% faster than Athlon 64 3800+, 30.67% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ and 46.71% faster than Athlon XP 3200+. In this test Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz was 4.29% faster than Athlon 64 FX-57.