Athlon 64 FX-53: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon 64 FX-53
2004
1 core / 1 thread, 89 Watt
0.41

Athlon 64 FX-53 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.41% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Athlon 64 FX-53 sales on June 2004 at a recommended price of $30. This is a Clawhammer architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 1 core and 1 thread, and is based on 130 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2400 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket 939 processor with a TDP of 89 Watt.

Primary details

Athlon 64 FX-53 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2999
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency0.44of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameClawhammer (2001−2005)
Release dateJune 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$30of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Detailed specifications

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 cores1 (Single-Core)
Threads1
Boost clock speed2.4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography130 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size193 mm2
Number of transistors105 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 FX-53 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)89 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 64 FX-53. 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-53 0.41

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.

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Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon 64 FX-53's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon 64 FX-53 is Pentium Dual-Core E2160, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position 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.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 64 FX-53, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 64 FX-53 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3 configurations using Athlon 64 FX-53 in our database.

GTX 580 GeForce GTX 580
33.3% (1/3)
GTS 450 GeForce GTS 450
33.3% (1/3)
Graphics Radeon Graphics
33.3% (1/3)

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