Intel Pentium D 805 - Dual Core on a Budget
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 7, 2006 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
3D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7
Ever since we first laid hands on a dual core processor one thing became very clear: heavy multitasking or multithreading guaranteed a performance victory over a single core CPU. That truth is once again made evident here in our 3dsmax test, where none of the single core CPUs can even come close to the performance of the slowest dual core CPU we've got on hand. The Pentium D 805 offers very competitive performance, much higher than any of its single core competitors and not too far off from the majority of its dual core counterparts.
The 805 is within about 6% of the Pentium D 820 and 920, although the X2 3800+ manages to outperform it by 20%.
Overall Performance using PC WorldBench 5
Media Encoding Performance using WME, DivX, Quicktime and iTunes
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poohbear - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
amazing how a dualcore opteron @ the same speeds as a non dual core can have a 30fps increase in quake4! :0 (aside from the extra 1mb cache) hope that's a sign of things to come.Sunrise089 - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Coming after the Black and White article, it's easy to see the high and low in AT writing. This artcle was fantastic, especially page 2, where Anand comments on all the possible chips in the low-middle marketplace. It's nice to see my Opteron 144 still able to win a benchmark. How important this info will be with Conroe around the corner is anyone's guess, but it's nice to see all the information put out there so effectively.Now if you will, write up an overclocking story on the Opteron 144, X2 3800+, Pentium D 805, and Pentium 4 3.2ghz.
Calin - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
And power use for the overclocked 805 is a must :Dthere goes the idea of having a small, silent, somewhat high performance computer with an 805 :(...
Pete84 - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Why wasn't the chip overclocked? They supposedly have very good headroom.JarredWalton - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Read the last page. That article is in the works.Viditor - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
As this is the low end, could you guys throw in an overclocked Sempron as well?Just askin...:)
stephenbrooks - Saturday, April 8, 2006 - link
Agree on the Sempron. Also wondering about the new Celeron 355 at 3.33GHz as the poor 351 gets left behind in all those graphs (though it is cheaper - I almost want the $ figure written on the graphs so I can tell if it's a fair competition or not).I wonder why Intel is making no 512KB L2 cache chips?
Questar - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Why?This thing would mop the floor with a Sempron.
Viditor - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh? :)
Seriously guys, since Semprons are in this same and slightly lower price range, it would be of great benefit to see a comparison so that we can make some buying decisions.
Cheers!
mino - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Actually Sempron 3100+ has about the same performance as A64 3000+.even 2800+ would be faster than 805 in singlethread scenario.
Not saying 805 is bad (actually it is now the best value for money).
Jus your comment is OFF.