General Performance

We tested the general performance in office and digital content creation applications with the help of SYSMark 2004 SE benchmarking suite, which also uses multi-threading very actively.

During digital content creation the top dual-core AMD processor shows its best. It outperforms the new CPU from Intel, Pentium Extreme Edition 965, by about 4%.

However, in the office tasks the situation is completely different. Pentium Extreme Edition 965 working at 3.73GHz clock rate proves about 2.5% faster than Athlon 64 FX-60 working at 2.6GHz.