Performance in PCMark04, 3Dmark 2001 SE and 3Dmark05

PCMark04 benchmark does support multi-threading therefore Pentium D 820 looks very attractive here.

Unfortunately, we can’t say the same about 3Dmark benchmark family, because they do not use the second processor core, just like most contemporary games.

However, 3Dmark05 has two purely processor tests working in two threads: one of them emulates the shaders and another one calculates the physical environment model. In this case Pentium D 820 proves very impressive, yielding to Athlon 64 3500+ only once. Note that none of the Pentium 4 processors from the same price range can compete with Pentium D 820 here.