Performance

Synthetic Benchmarks: PCMark05, 3DMark06 and ScienceMark 2.0

First of all we decided to test the performance of our processors in popular synthetic benchmarks.

The popular PCMark05 benchmark demonstrates a slight advantage of the Intel’s newcomer over the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 competitor. Here I would like to point out that the launch of Pentium Extreme Edition 965 changed the picture in this benchmark, as the AMD’s processor for enthusiasts used to hit the highest score in PCMark05.

3DMark06 results are very similar to what we have just seen on the previous diagram. The highest score again belongs to Pentium Extreme Edition 965, which outperforms Athlon 64 FX-60 in this test.

The 3DMark06 total score depends a lot on the processor performance index that can be calculated from the processor speeds measured during game physics and AI calculations. So, there is nothing surprising about the leadership of the new Pentium Extreme Edition965 processor: its victory results from the highest score in the CPU test.

The competitor solutions based on K8 architecture are definitely faster than the rivals in scientific computational tasks. According to ScienceMark 2.0, the performance of Athlon 64 FX-60 leaves Intel’s competitors far behind.