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Intel Pentium D 940 3.2GHz Dual Core Processor Review
Intel Pentium D 940 3.2GHz Dual Core Processor Review - PCSTATS
Built on Intel's 65 nanometer manufacturing process and with two physical processing cores running at 3.2 GHz each, backed up by 2MB of L2 cache, the socket 775 chip certainly makes quite a splash.
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External Mfg. Website: Intel Jul 25 2006   C. Sun  
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Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Maya Render Test, Super Pi

Maya Render Test Source: Maya-Test Center

Because of different displacement algorithms and continuous improvements of the renderer, Maya 6 and its corresponding batch renderer is absolutely required. The Test Scene is fairly processor-intensive and can take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes to render depending on your system specifications. Rendering produces 1 frame (512x512pixels). Lower times are better.

Maya - RenderTest
1 CPU Seconds Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 61
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 47
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 43
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 45
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 40
Intel Pentium D 940 60
2 CPU Seconds Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 40
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 47
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 23
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 26
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 19
Intel Pentium D 940 38

3D applications like Maya traditionally take advantage of the extra bandwidth cutting edge system provide, although it doesn't seem to help the Intel Pentium D 940 processor by much. Maya definitely sees a benefit in render times when the computer is running a dual core processor. The Pentium D 940 completes the render test 22 seconds, but virtually all the reference AMD Athlon64 processors outperform it.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The benchmark is fairly diverse and allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 Thousand to 32 Million. The benchmark, which uses 19 iterations in the test, is set 1 Million digits.

Lower numbers denote faster calculation times (seconds), and hence, better performance.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits: Seconds Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840 39
AMD Athlon64 4000+ 35
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 32
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ 34
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 31
Intel Pentium D 940 40

Super Pi does not take advantage of L2 cache, and this is why the Intel Pentium D 940 processor performs on par with the Pentium D 840 model. The AMD Athlon64 FX-62 posts the best results of any chip tested thus far by PCSTATS.

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Contents of Article: Intel Pentium D 940
 Pg 1.  Intel Pentium D 940 3.2GHz Dual Core Processor Review
 Pg 2.  Intel Dual Core Technology
 Pg 3.  Quiet LGA775 Thermal Solution
 Pg 4.  Overclocking the 3.2GHz chip
 Pg 5.  Pure 32 bit Benchmarks: Sysmark 2004
 Pg 6.  Pure 32 bit Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra 2005
 Pg 7.  — Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Maya Render Test, Super Pi
 Pg 8.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: PCMark05
 Pg 9.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: 3DMark05
 Pg 10.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: 3DMark06
 Pg 11.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Doom 3
 Pg 12.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: Quake 4
 Pg 13.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: FarCry
 Pg 14.  Pure 32-Bit Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 15.  64 Bit Benchmarks: ScienceMark 2
 Pg 16.  64 Bit Benchmarks: Mini-GZip, DiVX Encoding
 Pg 17.  Multi-Threaded Benchmarks: 3DMark05
 Pg 18.  Multi-Threaded Benchmarks: Doom 3
 Pg 19.  Multi-Threaded Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 20.  65nm Pentium D 940 - a step in the right direction?

 
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