3Dmark03 measures performance by simulating games written to DirectX 9, which are contemporary games. On the graph below you see our benchmarking results.

On 3DMark03 Athlon 64 FX-57 achieved a performance similar to the majority of high-end processors we’ve tested. There were meaningful performance differences only when compared to Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (3.10%), socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+ (3.50%), Pentium 4 3 GHz (4.05%) and Athlon XP 3200+ (6.48%).