Application Testing

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield Processor Review - Processors 51

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield Processor Review - Processors 52

For our WinRAR 3.71 testing, the extra cache on the QX9650 is responsible for a 9% gain in performance over the 65nm quad-core CPU.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield Processor Review - Processors 53

The PCMark05 test, which we’ll continue to use for a little while, shows only a moderate gain with the QX9650 over the QX6850 in the CPU and memory testing categories.  The lead for the quad-core processors over the dual-core X6800 is only 18% or so while the lead for the QX6850 over the top AMD CPU is a more formidable 59%.

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