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Setting The Stage For Benchmarking
Setting The Stage For Benchmarking
We were given two identical systems, both configured with the following hardware :-
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB L2 cache) and Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache)
- Pre-production Intel BadAxe 2 Desktop Motherboard (D975XBX2 Rev. 303)
- BIOS BX97520J.86A.1446.2006.0913.1039
- eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 (1GB)
- 2 x 1GB Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5 DDR2 1066MHz (set to 800MHz 4-4-4-12 in BIOS)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (320GB)
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
As you can see above, the dual core part is actually clocked 266MHz higher than the quad-core processor. Therefore, you should note that this is not a clock to clock comparison between dual- and quad-core.
The following benchmarks were executed on the two systems :-
- DivX 6.2.5 high definition encoding with XMPEG 5.03
- Sony Vegas 7.0a Build 115
- POV-Ray Beta 15
- 3ds Max 8 SP2
- Futuremark PCMark 05 Professional (CPU)
- Futuremark 3DMark 06 Professional (CPU)
