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Intel's Pentium XE 965 and 955 Processors

By Vijay Anand - 29 Apr 2006

Results - Futuremark 3DMark03 and 3DMark05

Results - Futuremark 3DMark03 and 3DMark05

Heading into some gaming related benchmarks, we dished out a couple of synthetic tests from Futuremark to see how the CPUs fare in tackling games. 3DMark03's CPU score is very depictive of single-threaded gaming performance and as was customary, AMD's Athlon 64 lineup clinched top spot. 3DMark05 introduced elements to take advantage of the multi-threading capability of modern CPUs and as such we found Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition processors' quad logical cores to stand in good light ahead of the Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 FX-60 chips. However, AMD's highly clocked single-core FX-57 processor still outpaced all others in this test and held the gaming edge. It won't be long before AMD validates a dual-core version of the FX-57 and that should really trounce Intel's offerings by a larger margin. We'll reserve further comments till it does show up.

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