Winstone 2004	Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Winstone 2004
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	25.3
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	31.8
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	33.3
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	35.2
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	33.7
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	41.4
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	43.6
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	45.8

In the Winstone 2004 tests both AMD chips hold a healthy lead over Intel's dual core Pentium D 840. The AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ and FX-60 perform quite closely, although the FX-60 obviously comes out with the better scores. When overclocked, the Athlon64 FX-60 scores about 30% higher than the Intel Pentium D 840 at stock! The Athlon64 certainly holds a lot of promise for office computer systems, now only if Dell would get the message...

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
	Multimedia Benchmark		CPU Benchmark		Memory Benchmark
Processors	Integer SSE2:	Floating-Point SSE2:	Dhrystone SSE2:	Whetstone SSE2:	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
Intel Pentium D 840	35981	42592	17318	4586 FPU / 7891 SSE2	5076	5071
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	45781	49521	20272	7608 FPU / 9852 SSE2	5828	5777
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	49259	53793	22016	8257 FPU / 10704 SSE2	5888	5949
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	54263	59238	24389	9028 FPU / 11786 SSE2	6058	6109
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

SiSoft Sandra 2005 is good at determining a processor's theoretical power. From the results here, it's clear that the AMD Athlon64 FX-60 is the most powerful desktop processor on the market that PCSTATS has yet tested. At stock speeds, its memory bandwidth seems a bit on the low side, but it's worth recalling that the memory controller is not sharing bandwidth between the two physical cores.