PC Magazine Benchmarks

Content Creation Winstone 2004 and Business Winstone 2004

Notes

The Athlon 64 FX has historically performed really well in content creation applications, and the FX-55 is no exception in Content Creation 2004. In fact, all of the AMD64 processors are able to best Intel’s best offerings in that metric.

Business Winstone 2004 recants the same tale, with the entire Athlon 64 lineup besting even Intel’s top-end Pentium 4 Extreme Edition at 3.4 GHz.

Note that while the Winstone benchmarks will no longer be supported, the applications used to generate the benchmark’s score are still valid and widely used. Both tests work well with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and are considered to fair game until the applications are replaced by new versions.