In most benchmarks Athlon 64 FX-53 working at 2.4GHz frequency outperforms all alternatives from Intel including even Pentium 4 extreme Edition 3.4GHz featuring 2MB of L3 cache memory. Of course, we have to stress that during audio and video data encoding as well as final rendering NetBurst architecture makes Intel solutions more efficient than Athlon 64. Moreover, Hyper-Threading technology, which is not available by AMD solutions pushes different Pentium 4 CPUs to the lead in a number of practical applications. However, the gaming performance of Athlon 64 FX-53 is beyond any competition, which is its best trump in front of dedicated gamers.