AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon 64 FX-60
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
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Year of release 2006
Performance 0.56

Summary

AMD started Athlon 64 FX-60 sales on January 2006. This is a Toledo architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 90 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket 939 processor with a TDP of 110 Watt.

It provides poor benchmark performance at

0.56%

of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.

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General info

Athlon 64 FX-60 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2604
Value for money0.48
Market segmentDesktop processor
Architecture codenameToledo (2006)
Release dateJanuary 2006 (17 years old)
Current price$99 of 15854 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)
Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Boost clock speed2.6 GHzof 6 (Core i9-13900KS)
L1 cache128 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache2 MBof 36 (Apple M2 Max)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography90 nmof 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Die size199 mm2
Number of transistors233 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 FX-60 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
Socket939
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 64 FX-60. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Athlon 64 FX-60 0.56

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Athlon 64 FX-60 709

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall Athlon 64 FX-60 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon 64 FX-60 is Pentium Dual-Core E2200, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 64 FX-60, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 64 FX-60 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4 configurations based on Athlon 64 FX-60 in our database.

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