PCMark®05 is everything you need to reliably and easily measure the performance of your PC and determine its strengths and weaknesses. With PCMark05, you will be able to select the optimal upgrades for your existing PC, or choose the right new PC that fits your specific needs. This easy-to-use product gives you the same tools and knowledge that virtually every professional tester in the industry uses. The benchmark suite offers three available score, memory, CPU and total.

In the PC Mark 05 tests, the Intel XE6800 is once again impressive. But also in the CPU tests, it was found to be 52.12% faster than the AMD X2 4600+, while the Intel E6600 was 24.67% faster. The Total Score for the AMD X2 4600+ gets a boost, thanks to its memory performance.

3DMark®06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

At 3D Mark 06, Intel XE6800 was 39.66% faster than AMD X2 4600+ at CPU test, while Intel E6600 "only" 15.00%. The overall score of all processors doesn't show significant differences, since the benchmark is highly dependable at the used VGA card.