IV. Side by Side Comparison: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 vs Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6300 vs Intel® Pentium® D 920

Since I have already covered pitting an Intel® Pentium® D 920 against an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6300, I decided to use the same hardware, everything is equal, except for the processor. This time around, there will be a 3-way head-to-head-to-head match up. While it isn't a surprise anymore that the higher clocked Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 will win, it's important to see how it fars.

::Multimedia Rendering::

Cinebench 9.5 CPU Score

Cinebench 9.5 Render Time

::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

::Gaming::

Doom3 640x480

The performance gain is highly noticeable, and comparing the new architecture to the previous generation 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™.....