Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor Review 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.  95% Rating:    Table of Contents Filed under: CPU / Processors Published:  Author:  External Mfg. Website: Intel Mar 14 2007   Max Page   Home > Reviews > CPU / Processors > Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

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.

Office 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.

Maya 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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