PCMark2005

Futuremark’s PCmark05 runs a number of tests on a system designed to stress various aspects of the machine such as CPU and graphics performance. With HD and Memory tests also thrown in it’s a useful indication of your systems overall performance. Scores in excess of 6000 are considered excellent.

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After the performance shown in SiSoft Sandra it is interesting to see how the more real world (though still synthetic) PCmark05 fits in. Looking at CPU results first we see a similar trend though the performance gaps are less pronounced. Memory is interesting on two levels. The first is that the FX-62 system doesn’t perform as well as the two Intel systems and when we isolate the Intel results we see that the dual core processor is actually outperforming the quad which leads us to believe that on the same architecture core speed has a large bearing on the memory performance. In fact despite scoring a significant margin higher in CPU performance the quad core ends up slower overall due to the memory scores.

Later on in the article we shall look at how this changes when we match the QX6700 to the X6800 on clock speeds.