| Intel E6420 vs. AMD 5600+ |
Synthetic Benchmarking:
More benchmarking and this time we are going to be using a synthetic benchmarking program called SiSoft Sandra. Sandra is an acronym for System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Sandra is a very useful program for determining component performance as it has several other results stored for many other processors, so it is easy for you to compare your computer to others. In the following, we will be looking at several types of benchmarks that SiSoft Sandra offers, though we are only going to be looking at the ones that are related to the CPU.
Higher values are better
Higher values are better
Lower Memory Latency values are better
Higher values are better
Higher values are better
Well, as we can see from the above results, AMD achieved a higher ranking than the Intel in 3 of the 5 tests; these tests were Processor Arithmetic, Memory Latency, and Power Performance. And Intel did better in the 2 categories of Processor Multi-Media, and Cache and Memory. Once again the integrated memory controller in the AMD 5600+ allows it a sizable lead over the E6420 in the Memory Latency benchmark, while the E6420 pulls out a win in the cache and memory with its new Core 2 microarchitecture. With overall performance being the determining factor here the AMD wins.
