3Dmark2001 SE measures video card performance simulating DirectX 8.1 games. It is very effective software for evaluating the performance from previous-generation games, programmed using DirectX 8. On the graph below you see our benchmarking results.

Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved a performance similar to Athlon 64 FX-55, which was 4.55% faster than Athlon 64 4000+, 6.77% faster than Athlon 64 3800+, 8.86% faster than Pentium 4 E.E. 3.4 GHz, 9.84% faster than Pentium 4 E.E. 3.2 GHz, 11.68% faster than socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+, 15.54% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 17.75% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, 19.34% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz ”E“ (”Prescott“), 22.56% faster than Pentium 4 3 GHz and 27.87% faster than Athlon XP 3200+.