Media and rendering benchmarks
Encoding over 700MB of WAV files is speedy on all these processors, but the Athlon X2 range cannot keep up with the speed of Intel's Core 2 Duo. Indeed, the budget E6400 SKU is almost as fast as the Athlon 64 X2 6000+.
And the Intel media-encoding dominance is further substantiated by our DivX benchmark. Tellingly, the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 comfortably beats out the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ in both of our media benchmarks.
The X2 6000+ posts the fastest single-CPU POV-Ray benchmark we've seen from AMD, but take a look at the competition!
Again, the similarly-priced Core 2 Duo E6700 is faster in both 3D rendering benchmarks.
