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Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor Review
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor Review - PCSTATS
All things considered equalled, enthusiasts like you are no doubt most attracted to the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 because it offers the best mix of cache size and clock speed.
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Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Maya Render

Office Productivity Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportOffice Productivity:
Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 25.3
Intel Pentium D 940 27.4
AMD Sempron 3600+ 26.4
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 32.2
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 33.3
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 33
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 36.4
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 32.5
Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 33.7
Intel Pentium D 940 33.8
AMD Sempron 3600+ 32.4
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 39.7
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 43.6
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 41.4
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 46.2
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 43.3

These results are certainly interesting to see, the Intel Core 2 Duo is quite a bit quicker than the Pentium D series but slower than AMD's Athlon64. The applications used in the Office Productivity tests are older which means they will not be optimized for the Core 2 Duo processor. To take advantage of modern dual core processors, you'll want to use the latest software available.

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Processors Integer SSE2: Floating-Point SSE2: Dhrystone SSE2: Whetstone SSE2: Integer SSE2: Float SSE2:
Intel Pentium D 840 35981 42592 17318 4586 FPU / 7891 SSE2 5076 5071
Intel Pentium D 940 36005 42695 16953 4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2 5087 5087
AMD Sempron 3600+ 19154 20604 8454 3144 FPU / 4105 SSE2 5429 5373
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ 45781 49521 20272 7608 FPU / 9852 SSE2 5828 5777
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 49259 53793 22016 8257 FPU / 10704 SSE2 5888 5949
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 48914 53776 22005 8196 FPU / 10698 SSE2 6632 6563
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 52689 57918 23702 8899 FPU / 11522 SSE2 7068 6985
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 62814 71756 29142 7328 FPU / 10785 SSE2 5618 5584

Units:

it/s it/s MIPS MFLOPS MB/s MB/s

The SiSoft Sandra benchmark results are certainly interesting. The Intel Core 2 Duo has plenty of Multimedia power, that much should be obvious, however the CPU results like the Whetstone are actually lower than the dual core Athlon64 processors. Memory bandwidth is also lower. Let's see how that translates in the next benchmark.

Maya 8 Render Test Source: Maya-Test Center

Because of different displacement algorithms and continuous improvements of the renderer, Maya 6 and its corresponding batch renderer is absolutely required. The Test Scene is fairly processor-intensive and can take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes to render depending on your system specifications. Rendering produces 1 frame (512x512pixels). Lower times are better.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportMaya 8 - RenderTest
1 CPU Seconds Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 61
Intel Pentium D 940 60
AMD Sempron 3600+ 55
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 47
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 43
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 45
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 40
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 25
2 CPU Seconds Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 40
Intel Pentium D 940 38
AMD Sempron 3600+ 55
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 47
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 23
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 26
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 19
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 12

Our custom Maya 8 render test easily shows which processor is fastest - the Core 2 Duo E6600. Look at it this way, in the single core tests the E6600 comes in at 25 seconds, and the Athlon64-62 comes in at 40 seconds. In the dual core tests the FX-62 clocks in at a time of 19 seconds while the E6600 does it in just 12.

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Contents of Article: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
 Pg 1.  Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor Review
 Pg 2.  Intel's Socket 775 Families and Technologies
 Pg 3.  Performance-Per-Watt Metrics
 Pg 4.  Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Overclocking, lots of fun here!
 Pg 5.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004
 Pg 6.  — Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Maya Render
 Pg 7.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Super Pi, PCMark05
 Pg 8.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: 3DMark05, 3DMark06
 Pg 9.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Doom 3, Quake 4
 Pg 10.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: FarCry, FEAR
 Pg 11.  64 Bit Benchmarks: ScienceMark 2
 Pg 12.  64 Bit Benchmarks: Mini-GZip, DiVX Encoding
 Pg 13.  Multi-Threaded Benchmarks: 3DMark05, Doom 3
 Pg 14.  Multi-Threaded Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 15.  Dual-Core Core 2 Duo is Coretastic!

 
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