Performance - 3DMark 06 CPU | 3DMark Vantage CPU

3DMark 06 CPU Test

The aging 3DMark 06 nowadays is getting a bit more CPU limited and makes it a good application to check CPU or APU performance. The scores that you see are the CPU test itself, not overall 3DMark 06 scores. 3DMark 06 still uses processor 16-threads, making it a suitable benchmark even for processors made today.

3DMark Vantage CPU Test

3DMark Vantage focuses on the two areas most critical to gaming performance: the CPU and the GPU. With the emergence of multi-package and multi-core configurations on both the CPU and GPU side, the performance scale of these areas has widened, and the visual and game-play effects made possible by these configurations are accordingly wide-ranging. This makes covering the entire spectrum of 3D gaming a difficult task. 3DMark Vantage has a standalone CPU test. It's multi-core and multi-threading aware. We'll look at the overall P score in the game segment of this article as well.

And albeit a little irrelevant, below I also added the Vantage score. It's a dated title hence it should be more relevant for processor bench-marking.

You will notice in the above chart I had added an overclocked result set with the Ryzen 7 tweaked to 4,100 MHz as well. There has been a lot of discussion on the game performance with CPU bound games and resolutions. The added results is purely to show you that there is a lot to gain from a bit of processor tweaking.