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New Budget Dual-Core CPUs: Intel Pentium E2160 and Pentium E2140 (page 12)

Category: CPU

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 05/30/2007 | 05:40 PM ]

Final Rendering

The results are pretty ambiguous in final rendering applications. The leadership goes to dual-core processors with Core micro-architecture in 3ds max 8, while in CINEBENCH (showing the performance in Cinema 4D suite) gives the laurels to the youngest Athlon 64 X2 CPUs.

Scientific Calculations

Athlon 64 X2 processors are traditionally famous for their high results in ScienceMark 2.0 test that measures the system performance during the work of molecular dynamics algorithms. Although the new Pentium E2000 processors outperform the previous generation Intel Pentium D, they still cannot catch up with the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and 3600+ priced similarly.