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By Vijay Anand - 21 May 2006

Results - Futuremark 3DMark03, 3DMark05 and 3DMark06

Results - Futuremark 3DMark03, 3DMark05 and 3DMark06

Keeping the best for the last has been our style of presenting benchmark results and it's no different in this article as we present gaming related results on the following two pages. First up is the trio of results we obtained from three different versions of FutureMark's synthetic CPU game tests - 3DMark03, 3DMark05 and the latest 3DMark06 installment.

The older 3DMark03 CPU score best depicts less complex single-threaded gaming performance and it wasn't surprising to find AMD's Athlon 64 X2 lineup leading the pack. 3DMark05 implements some light threading elements and a slightly larger workload, but the AMD dual-core processors still stack up well to it. In 3DMark06, FutureMark made sure that the CPU plays a more prominent role as most of the new processors being sold would be dual-core capable and can tackle more demanding calculations in line with more advanced game interfaces that are due to be out as well. Thus, we see larger workloads, increased intersystem communication and that seems to have given both AMD and Intel processors a more equal footing in the latest 3DMark installment. Of course all this pure theoretical testing and so we have real world game engine tests on the next page to see how they pull through in reality.

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