Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Review

3DMark06 Professional

3DMark06 is the latest version of 3DMark franchise, measuring Shader 3.0 (i.e., DirectX 9.0c) performance. We run this software on its default configuration (1280×1024 resolution with no image quality settings enabled), checking the CPU batch results for comparison.

Here Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was the fastest CPU, being 8.61% faster than Core 2 Extreme X6800, 11.14% faster than Core 2 Duo E6700, 19.65% faster than Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 85.66% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz and 96.65% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz.

Analyzing only the CPU score from 3DMark06, Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was also the fastest CPU, being 54.58% faster than Core 2 Extreme X6800, 68.44% faster than Core 2 Duo E6700, 95.31% faster than Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 286.29% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz and 305.07% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz.