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Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6850 and Core2 E6750 Host bus: 1333 MHz
(Review by MS, July 15, 2007)

Rendering Performance

POV Ray is one of the oldest raytracing programs out there and it has been updated I don't know how many times since we started using it first in 1997. One of the issues we observed repeatedly was that the SSE2 render engine was slower than the standard version. WIth the 3.7 beta .21, this has changed, the standard version turned out to be markedly slower than the "formerly slower" SSE2 version. Due to the expiration of the older version, we show data obtained with the latest beta with the caveat that they may not be exactly comparable with the older results.

All CPUs Benchmark

Pixels per second, higher is better. As mentioned, there are inconsistencies between the different versions of the benchmark that we believe are largely responsible for the results here.

Cinebench

We used the multithreaded rendering benchmark of Cinebench 9.5

Score: higher is better. Everything is back on track, the Core2 Extreme 6850 literally blows the competition to pieces.

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