3DMark05

Futuremark 3DMark05

Notes

The first half of Futuremark’s 3DMark05 metric is designed to measure graphics performance. It isn’t optimized to highlight dual-core processing and as such doesn’t demonstrate an appreciable gain. The single-core FX-55 and Opteron 252 processors hold the edge with little effort when frequency matters most.

The second half is, however, intended to expose threading performance. And it does. In a big way. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ takes a first place finish followed by the server-class Opteron 875. Intel’s Extreme Edition 840 gets a piece of the action and it followed by the Pentium 4 570J, which doesn’t benefit from dual-core but does wield HyperThreading for improved efficiency.