ScienceMark 2.0	Source: ScienceMark

Mol Dyn: Molecular Dynamics is a method for simulating the thermodynamic behaviour of materials using their forces, velocities, and positions. Most important of the afore mentioned is the force. Primordia: This code calculates the Quantum Mechanical Hartree-Fock Orbital for each electron in any element of the periodic table Lower times indicate better results.

Lower calculation times are better.

ScienceMark 2.3 Primordia: 2-core (sec) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 214.30866 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 182.98519 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 193.09425 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 169.76479 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 180.79589 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 206.44843 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 205.89 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 187.42693 AMD Athlon II X2 250 194.40944 Mol Dyn: 2-core (sec) Ranking Intel Core i7 920 40.44002 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 43.53948 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 46.56567 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 46.13833 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 49.00769 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 56.19517 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 55.893 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 50.63983 AMD Athlon II X2 250 52.47853

ScienceMark illustrates just how much optimization can affect a processor's performance. The Primordia benchmark places the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition in the lead by a significant margin, and it doesn't seem to favour the Core i7 920 at all. The Mol Dun benchmark is a win for the Core i7, with the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition dropping to third place overall, just ahead of the Core 2 Duo E 8400.

WinRAR Internal Benchmark	Source: RARLabs

This command generates random data, which contain specially introduced redundancy increasing load to processor and memory. Then data are passed through RAR compression and decompression algorithms and output of decompression algorithm is compared with source data. If any difference found, WinRAR reports "Errors found - Yes" in the command window. Also WinRAR displays a size of processed data and compression speed, current and resulting, in kilobytes per second. You may use the resulting speed value to compare RAR performance in different conditions.

Higher results are better.

WinRAR 3.8 Internal Benchmark KB/s Ranking Intel Core i7 920 3012 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 923 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 1058 AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 1975 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 1866 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR2) 1534 AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (DDR3) 1435 AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition 970 AMD Athlon II X2 250 887

Again, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is doing very well here, it's the fastest AMD processor PCSTATS has yet tested. While it's still behind the Core i7 920 in terms of overall performance in this benchmark, it's a more affordable chip and less expensive platform. The two dual-core Core 2 Duo processors suffer badly against WinRARs internal test...