IV. Side by Side Comparison: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6300 vs Intel® Pentium® D 920

An Intel® Pentium® D 920, the current champion in the value arena just above an Intel® Pentium® D 805 is pitted against the contender, seated at lowest end of the line. Both of these processors is the lowest end, so it should be interesting to see how the two performs.

::Multimedia Rendering::

Cinebench 9.5 CPU Score (Click on the image for full version)

Cinebench 9.5 Render Time (Click on the image for full version)

::Subsystem Test::

SuperPi 1M (Click on the image for full version)

PCMark02

PCMark05

Sandra-CPU

Sandra-Multimedia

Sandra-RAM Bandwidth

::3D Test::

3DMark03

3DMark05

3DMark06

For sure, the performance gain is highly noticeable. The clock frequency between the two processor is not so much of a factor anymore. What's even more interesting is that, with this results, one can see the leaps and bounds of performance difference between the two architecture. Overall performance can be seen, from pure CPU performance to improved memory bandwidth and rendering capability. Intel, Leap Ahead™.....