ScienceMark 2.0

Since computers are computers and they were originally developed to handle increasingly complex scientific calculations, it is only appropriate that we benchmark the very latest and greatest in computing with a tool called ScienceMark. Really though, ScienceMark 2.0 is probably the best collection of CPU processing tests that there is. The benchmark suite has your processor do everything from calculating 1536x1536 matrices to cryptographic calculations and simulating molecular dynamics.



In the graph and pictures above, you can see the results we obtained for the overall score of the processors after the entire benchmark suite had be run. You can clearly see the numbers scale up quite nicely with increased clock speed as expected. There are also some interesting results in the specific test pictures we included, such as the E6700 at 2885MHz beating out the X6800 at stock. Also interesting to note is how much better these Core 2 Duo processors perform in ScienceMark 2.0 than some of their predecessors like the AMD Opteron 246 and the Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz.

Sandra Lite 2007

We used the Sandra 2007 benchmarking tool to get some raw statistics of our processors. Since these numbers are not calculated in any kind of special scoring system, there is nothing much to explain here, so we will let the pictures do the talking.