Performance - 3DMark06 CPU | WinRAR

3DMark 06 CPU test

Well, everybody loves 3DMark06, and nowadays, it's CPU limited, making it an okay application to check CPU performance. The scores that you see obviously are the CPU test itself, not overall 3DMark06 scores.

WinRAR performance
One of the oldest applications in the book actually has a nice benchmark included in it. What's real nice about it is that it's pretty sensitive to system changes, such as memory. An excellent tool to have included in this memory test.

With WinRAR we again see that hyper-threading on Core i7 is kicking in so freakishly hard here that it's nearly embarrassing to look at. It has to do with the sheer power of the Core i7 combo of fast CPU cores, caches, hyper-threading and extreme memory bandwidth due to triple channel memory.

Now here we finally see a tiny improvement from 790GX DDR3 over 790GX DDR2, but again petite is the keyword here.