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« Return to: Intel's New Core 2 Duo Processors Run Blazingly Fast in PC World Tests

Productivity Tests Gaming Tests1
TESTED SYSTEM CPU World-Bench 5 Multitasking (seconds) Adobe Premiere 6.5 (seconds) Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 (seconds) Ahead Nero Express 6 (seconds) Doom 3 (fps) Far Cry (fps) Return to Castle Wolfenstein (fps)
Reference PC
Intel Core 2 Extreme PC 2.93-GHz Core 2 Extreme X6800 160 279 273 222 181 157 205 n/a
Intel Core 2 Duo PC 2.67-GHz Core 2 E6700 153 296 283 235 185 151 193 n/a
AMD Socket AM2 FX-62 PC 2.8-GHz Athlon 64 FX-62 137 362 308 274 187 123 145 n/a
Intel Pentium D 940 PC 3.2-GHz Pentium D 940 113 500 434 351 199 103 111 n/a
Out-of-Box Core 2 Duo PC
ABS Ultimate X92 2.93-GHz Core 2 Extreme X6800 181 252 239 189 152 208 269 313
CyberPower Gamer Infinity SLI Ultra 2.93-GHz Core 2 Extreme X6800 167 267 260 207 157 164 206 269
Dell XPS 7003 2.67-GHz Core 2 Duo E6700 153 297 300 221 185 140 180 241
Dell XPS 410 3 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 138 382 306 237 208 146 181 199
Velocity Micro Vector GX4 2.13-GHz Core 2 Duo E6400 117 385 344 277 468 91 128 173
Out-of-Box Comparison PC
Xi Mtower 64 AGL-SLI 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 FX-60 142 341 283 298 160 n/a n/a 156
Micro Express MicroFlex 34645 3.4-GHz Pentium 4 650 111 672 326 421 212 n/a n/a 140
Footnotes: 1Tests run at 1024 by 768, 32-bit color without anti-aliasing. fps = frames per second. 2This system was liquid-cooled and overclocked to 3.5-GHz. 3This system ran Windows XP Media Center Edition. 4This system had 1GB of RAM. 5This system ran Windows XP Home.
Chart notes: Reference PCs are systems built by the PC World Test Center using motherboards that support given processors and a common set of components; these PCs were configured with 2GB of DDR2-667 memory, a pair of SATA hard drives in a striped array, and an nVidia GeForce 7800GT-based graphics card. All systems ran Windows XP Profesional and had 2GB of RAM unless otherwise noted. Higher is better for WorldBench 5 and the gaming tests. Elsewhere, lower is better. Bold denotes best score. Italicized systems are non-Core 2 machines for testing comparison. Tests conducted by PC World Test Center. For details on how we test, go to our WorldBench 5.0 page. All rights reserved.