A Roundup of 45 PCI-E video cards, Q'3 2006
Benchmarking. Synthetic tests
It is interesting to note that "verdicts" of various applications regarding the leadership among the processors to attain maximum performance are opposing. Further, you will be able to estimate the results yourselves and see where, e.g. the "CPU-bounded" Half Life 2 gives in the performance crown to P4 3.73 Extreme Edition released a year ago at a price over $1000 and still just a little bit cheap since then. At the same time, PCMark 2005 with ATI X1900 XTX CrossFire Edition assumes that Prescott 3.8 GHz is somehow more powerful, what FarCry later "confirms".
Nevertheless, further tests were run mainly on the platform of P4 3.73 Extreme Edition. Now with the release of most recent processors built on the Conroe core, including the flagship Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93 GHz), the situation with leadership is even more evident - the very first tests demonstrate a substantial performance boost over those based on the NetBurst architecture, and the long-awaited breakthrough has been finally achieved. But that is a separate topic for future tests.
Now, the test results themselves.
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