Intel Pentium D 960 Processor

Results - SYSmark 2004

Results - SYSmark 2004

For its price, the new Pentium D 960's performance matches that of the US$1,000 Pentium 955 XE model and that's quite commendable. However, it's unable to displace the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ that performed remarkably in the Content Creation test suite, thus pulling its overall performance score a good degree. Office productivity scores took a hit for the entire Athlon 64 X2 series and that's because of the large working data sets preferring the Pentium D 900 series equipped with double the L2 cache quantity. Looking at the overall scores, it's a good bet that the Athlon 64 X2 4600+ would be equally matched up with the new Pentium D 960 rather than the 4800+ model in both performance and price.