PC Performance (January 2009)

Posted on 26 Jan 2009 by John Poole

It's been over a year since I've updated the PC Performance chart. Why did it take so long? Well, over the last year I've made a lot of architectural changes, both to Geekbench and to the Geekbench Browser, that broke the chart generation scripts. After the Geekbench 2.1 release (and after the holidays) I had time to sit down and re-write the scripts, so here's the latest installment of the PC Performance chart.

Setup

Results were collected from Geekbench 2 for Windows running on PCs with at least 512 MB of RAM and with processors that weren't overclocked.

I've reported the average overall score for each processor. If you're unfamiliar with Geekbench and how it measures performance, a score of 1000 is the score a Power Mac G5 @ 1.6GHz would receive. Higher scores are better.

Results

Intel Core i7 920
16 cores @ 2670 MHz		 7503
 
AMD Phenom II X4 940
4 cores @ 3000 MHz		 5875
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme X9770
4 cores @ 3200 MHz		 5271
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme X9650
4 cores @ 3000 MHz		 5107
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
4 cores @ 2830 MHz		 4925
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6800
4 cores @ 2930 MHz		 4886
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
4 cores @ 2830 MHz		 4801
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6850
4 cores @ 3000 MHz		 4791
 
AMD Phenom 9950
4 cores @ 2600 MHz		 4724
 
AMD Phenom 9850
4 cores @ 2500 MHz		 4412
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
4 cores @ 2660 MHz		 4298
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
4 cores @ 2660 MHz		 4259
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
4 cores @ 2500 MHz		 4185
 
AMD Phenom 9750
4 cores @ 2400 MHz		 4104
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
4 cores @ 2330 MHz		 4000
 
AMD Phenom 9650
4 cores @ 2300 MHz		 3965
 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4 cores @ 2400 MHz		 3960
 
AMD Phenom 9550
4 cores @ 2200 MHz		 3872
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
2 cores @ 3330 MHz		 3855
 
AMD Phenom 9600
4 cores @ 2300 MHz		 3846
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
2 cores @ 3330 MHz		 3794
 
AMD Phenom 9500
4 cores @ 2200 MHz		 3652
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
2 cores @ 3160 MHz		 3451
 
AMD Phenom 8650
3 cores @ 2300 MHz		 3367
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 3343
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 3334
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
2 cores @ 3200 MHz		 3307
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 3291
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
2 cores @ 2930 MHz		 3102
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 3093
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 3083
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300
2 cores @ 2660 MHz		 3065
 
AMD Phenom 8450
3 cores @ 2100 MHz		 3063
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
2 cores @ 2660 MHz		 3022
 
Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 2947
 
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 2923
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
2 cores @ 2660 MHz		 2895
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 2894
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200
2 cores @ 2530 MHz		 2810
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
2 cores @ 2600 MHz		 2691
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2 cores @ 2400 MHz		 2656
 
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
2 cores @ 2600 MHz		 2650
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
2 cores @ 2330 MHz		 2640
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2 cores @ 2600 MHz		 2612
 
AMD Athlon X2 4850e
2 cores @ 2500 MHz		 2603
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
2 cores @ 2400 MHz		 2466
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E4700
2 cores @ 2600 MHz		 2440
 
Intel Pentium Dual E2200
2 cores @ 2200 MHz		 2418
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
2 cores @ 2400 MHz		 2416
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420
2 cores @ 2130 MHz		 2412
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
2 cores @ 2130 MHz		 2357
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400
2 cores @ 2000 MHz		 2206
 
Intel Pentium Dual E2180
2 cores @ 2000 MHz		 2200
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400
2 cores @ 2000 MHz		 2194
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2 cores @ 2200 MHz		 2183
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
2 cores @ 2200 MHz		 2173
 
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350
2 cores @ 2100 MHz		 2150
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320
2 cores @ 1860 MHz		 2111
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
2 cores @ 2100 MHz		 2111
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
2 cores @ 1860 MHz		 2102
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
2 cores @ 1800 MHz		 2091
 
Intel Pentium D 945/950
2 cores @ 3400 MHz		 2065
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2 cores @ 2000 MHz		 2053
 
Intel Pentium Dual E2160
2 cores @ 1800 MHz		 2049
 
Intel Pentium D 840
2 cores @ 3200 MHz		 2006
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
2 cores @ 2000 MHz		 1991
 
Intel Pentium D 935
2 cores @ 3200 MHz		 1938
 
Intel Pentium D 940
2 cores @ 3200 MHz		 1934
 
Intel Pentium 4 670/672
2 cores @ 3800 MHz		 1911
 
Intel Pentium D 830
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 1886
 
Intel Pentium D 925
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 1882
 
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
1 core @ 2600 MHz		 1879
 
Intel Pentium D 925/930
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 1843
 
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
1 core @ 2400 MHz		 1756
 
Intel Pentium 4 560
2 cores @ 3600 MHz		 1752
 
Intel Pentium D 820
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 1741
 
Intel Pentium D 920
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 1734
 
Intel Pentium 4 551
2 cores @ 3400 MHz		 1726
 
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1 core @ 2400 MHz		 1711
 
Intel Pentium D 915
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 1694
 
Intel Pentium D 805
2 cores @ 2660 MHz		 1685
 
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1 core @ 2200 MHz		 1631
 
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1 core @ 2200 MHz		 1584
 
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
1 core @ 2200 MHz		 1557
 
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1 core @ 2000 MHz		 1446
 
Intel Pentium 4 630
2 cores @ 3000 MHz		 1443
 
Intel Pentium 4 541
2 cores @ 3200 MHz		 1406
 
Intel Pentium 4 520/620
2 cores @ 2800 MHz		 1375
 
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1 core @ 1800 MHz		 1330
 
Intel Pentium 4 519K/524
1 core @ 3060 MHz		 1308
 
Intel Pentium 4 515/516
1 core @ 2930 MHz		 1256
 
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
1 core @ 1800 MHz		 1218
 
Intel Pentium 4 506
1 core @ 2660 MHz		 1044
 
 
John Poole is the founder of Primate Labs and lives in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Deborah. You can find John on Twitter or .