Photoshop
CS 2 - I measured the time it takes to apply a 100% Radial
Blur at best quality to a 1.29mb image. Adobe's built-in timer was
used. (lower is better) |
| AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz |
 |
33.3s |
| Intel Pentium D 805 @ 3.9 ghz |
|
38.4s |
| AMD X2 3800+ (stock) |
|
41.1s |
| Intel Pentium D 805 (stock) |
|
55.1s |
| Intel Xeon 2.66 @ 3.1ghz |
|
38.3s |
The X2 has a fairly nice lead on the competition.
Cinebench
2003 - I measure the time it takes to run the multiple (blue)
and single (grey) CPU image rendering test (lower is better) |
Cinebench 2003 is one of the rare programs that supports 4 threads! The Xeon
with Hyper Threading takes advantage of this as you can see it inch away for
the lead.
DVD
Shrink - I measured the time it takes to compress LOTR:
The Two Towers DVD (lower is better) |
| AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz |
|
9:19 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 @ 3.9 ghz |
|
7:42 |
| AMD X2 3800+ (stock) |
|
10:55 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 (stock) |
|
11:02 |
| Intel Xeon 2.66 @ 3.1ghz |
|
9:14 |
Here is where the Pentium D 805 shows it's pure horsepower.
Mpeg
to DivX - I measured the time it takes to convert a 1.53gb
Mpeg file to a 356mb DivX file using ImToo Mpeg Encoder (lower is
better) |
| AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz |
|
17:24 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 @ 3.9 ghz |
|
18:16 |
| AMD X2 3800+ (stock) |
|
22:21 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 (stock) |
|
26:12 |
| Intel Xeon 2.66 @ 3.1ghz |
|
23:15 |
The overclocked X2 coasts to victory.
Wav
to MP3 - I measured the time it takes to convert a 312mb
wav file to mp3 using Blaze Media Pro
(lower is better) |
| AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz |
|
2:03 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 @ 3.9 ghz |
|
2:15 |
| AMD X2 3800+ (stock) |
|
2:35 |
| Intel Pentium D 805 (stock) |
|
3:21 |
| Intel Xeon 2.66 @ 3.1ghz |
|
2:36 |
Once again, the efficiency of the overclocked X2 wins the battle.
PC Mark 05 - only
relevant tests are recorded |
Intel Pentium D 805 (stock) |
AMD X2 3800+ (stock) |
Intel Pentium D 805 @ 3.9 ghz |
AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.5ghz |
Intel Xeon 2.66 @ 3.1ghz |
| Web Page Rendering |
2.15 |
2.35 |
3.12 |
2.96 |
2.6 |
| Audio Compression |
1538.8 |
1925.76 |
2222.2 |
2464.62 |
2146.07 |
| Video Encoding |
245 |
285 |
366.38 |
366.41 |
291.85 |
| Text Edit |
105 |
116.58 |
154.26 |
144.13 |
89.96 |
| Image Decompression |
21.28 |
22.82 |
31.34 |
28.34 |
20.79 |
| File Compression |
5.28 |
6.08 |
7.35 |
7.25 |
6.59 |
| File Encryption |
24.95 |
17.28 |
43.4 |
22.38 |
23.84 |
| Memory Latency |
7.76 |
10.2 |
9.14 |
11.22 |
7.93 |
PC Mark 05 provides interesting results. In synthetics, the overclocked Pentium
D 805 clearly has the advantage over the overclocked X2. Unfortunately, this
doesn't translate into the real wold and it makes synthetic benchmarking pointless.
Results
Despite a 1.4ghz deficit, the overclocked X2 3800 wins 5 out of 6 real world
tests against the overclocked Pentium D 805. It's only defeat, although by a
large margin, was in DVD Shrink. The overclocked 805 didn't go down without
a fight. The following charts show the percentage difference of the overclocked
805 against the other processors.
