PCMark05 is
a premium tool for measuring both normal home use and simple 3D performance of
the latest PC hardware. There are 11 system tests - each one is designed to
represent a certain type of PC usage. By running these tests, PCMark05 stresses
the components in a similar manner as they are stressed in normal home usage.
PCMark05: |
Overall |
Points |
Ranking |
Intel Pentium D 840 |
5732 |
   |
Intel Pentium D 940 |
8276 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
4617 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
4416 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ |
6115 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
6496 |
   |
CPU |
Points |
Ranking |
Intel Pentium D 840 |
5309 |
   |
Intel Pentium D 940 |
5313 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
3479 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
5179 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ |
5322 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
5716 |
   |
Memory |
Points |
Ranking |
Intel Pentium D 840 |
4201 |
   |
Intel Pentium D 940 |
4121 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 4000+ |
4439 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
4216 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ |
4757 |
   |
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
5072 |
   |
PCMark05 definitely loves the Intel Pentium D 940
processor judging by the overall benchmark results. The CPU score sub-test
results are much closer between each of the test processors that what we
expected. In this respect, all CPUs fair pretty evenly, although the Athlon64
FX-62 and its abundance of L2 cache certainly present it with a small lead.