Futuremark 2006 Benchmarks: AMD vs Intel, ATI vs Nvidia @ AMDZone

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on January 25th, 2006, 03:12 PM

Since the day we published the first gaming benchmarks with an Opteron and the Asus SK8N back in August of 2003 we knew AMD had taking the gaming performance crown back with a vengeance. It is pretty clear they have held that lead, but here we see 3DMark 2006 say the 840 D Intel platform with the nForce 4 beats out the FX60 also on nForce 4 with either a Radeon or GeForce. We have to wonder what is going on under the hood of this new version because what we have reflected here in the final score is not real world performance for gaming as you can see in our FX60 review. Commenting on the X1800XL versus the 7800GT we see Nvidia has comfortable lead bigger then the P4 over the Athlon 64.

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**Posted by Cannyone on January 25th, 2006, 05:20 PM**

From the last two sentences:

3DMark 2006 is certainly good for eye candy, but we would not recommend one use it as the main reason for choosing hardware. We always must recommend real world application performance numbers to synthetic tests any day of the week.

Amen to that. I personally have never liked the idea behind a program like 3DMark, as it becomes subject to various "optimizations" as we have seen in this review. I couldn't tell you what my own rig scores and I honestly don't care.

If Intel are throwing that much money at Futuremark to make their processors look better than they really are, then it probably won't be too long before integrated Intel Extreme Graphics start producing some amazing scores as well