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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: SMP and the New Intel Kentsfield Key Features Power Management and Cache Questions Test Setup, Benchmark Overview Power Consumption Memory System 3D Rendering: TrueSpace POV-Ray 3.7 Cinebench 2003 DVD Shrink, Dr DivX & Mainconcept H.264 Futuremarks FarCry, DOOM3 F.E.A.R. Prey, Call of Duty2 Final Thoughts Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6700 Codename "Kentsfield"
(Review by MS, November 1, 2006)

3D Rendering Performance

Among the applications that truly took advantage of multiple cores - and at the same time only showed marginal improvement with HyperThreading has been Caligari TrueSpace. Moreover, TrueSpace has been one of the applications that gave us power consumption values comparable to those of running the maximum supported number of Prime95 instances on any given CPU, which provides inferential evidence for its full use of all resources on the CPU in question.

3D Rendertime: Vases, 1024 x 768 2 x AA

Rendertime in seconds, lower is better. The QX6700 is without competition, beating even a dual processor Opteron system with dual core Opteron 280 processors.

CPU Power Consumption per Renderpass

Previous champions have been AMD's Venice core-based CPUs and Intel's Core2 Duo E6700.

One thing worth to mention here is that the benchmark starts with a certain lag - depending on the desktop resolution and Anti Aliasing settings. In the case of the 1024 x 768 resolution used, this lag is approximately 16 seconds and that is relatively constant through all processors tested. In other words, the real render time would be any of the above shown numbers minus 15 seconds. If this adjustment is done, then the faster CPUs scale better with respect to relative performance increase.

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