Designed for DirectX9.0, provides you with all the information you need to make informed hardware assessments. Havok Total real-time physics library from Havok - these routines are used to accurately model the movements of objects due to forces, etc. FMOD sound library from Firelight Technologies - these are used for the various sound effects and routines used in the tests. Graphics adapter analysis software from Powerstrip of Entech Taiwan - this is used to correctly determine the speeds of the graphics processing and video memory chips, plus supply additional hardware information. Higher 3DMark03 scores denote better performance.

Futuremark 3DMark03
Overall	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	16583
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	27985
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	28623

When it comes to 3D performance, there is nothing that can catch the AMD Athlon64 FX-60! When overclocked the system is marginally faster.

Futuremark 3DMark05	Source: FutureMark

3DMark05 is the latest version of the highly favoured 3DMark graphics benchmarking series. It is the first benchmark to require DirectX9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher!

Futuremark 3DMark05
Overall:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	8562
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	12825
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	13520
CPU:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	6532
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	6867
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	7516

The nVidia nForce4 SLI Intel Edition seems a little lacking in performance in 'Overall' test where the AMD Athlon64 FX-60 outperforms the Intel Pentium D 840 by 33%.