Intel Pentium D 805 - Dual Core on a Budget
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 7, 2006 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
3D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7
Ever since we first laid hands on a dual core processor one thing became very clear: heavy multitasking or multithreading guaranteed a performance victory over a single core CPU. That truth is once again made evident here in our 3dsmax test, where none of the single core CPUs can even come close to the performance of the slowest dual core CPU we've got on hand. The Pentium D 805 offers very competitive performance, much higher than any of its single core competitors and not too far off from the majority of its dual core counterparts.
The 805 is within about 6% of the Pentium D 820 and 920, although the X2 3800+ manages to outperform it by 20%.
Overall Performance using PC WorldBench 5
Media Encoding Performance using WME, DivX, Quicktime and iTunes
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Nick5324 - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Agree, good stuff! I'm looking forward to the overclocking write up.whitelight - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
i liked how you included a large variety of cpu's. thanks!lifeblood - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Having read all the reviews of EE this and XF that, I was starting to think my poor little +3000 was ready for the garbage heap. After reading this article I was very happy to see my +3000 still does quite well in office productivity and games which is it's primary use. I guess I will keep it around another year before upgrading to an X2.PrinceGaz - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Superb article Anand, this is the kind of article I like; a test that includes all of the likely alternative chips that might be considered and where something useful is said under each graph instead of just presenting page after page of graphs with no comments. Okay so I look at the graphs first and make my own mind up, but it's always good to see what someone else thinks in each test to see if I missed something important. I look forward to more articles like this; hopefully the Pentium D 805 overclocking article will also look at overclocking the other chips, not just the 805.The one error I refer to is that although the Celeron D processor is correctly identified as having 256KB L2 cache in pages 2 and 3 of the article, on all of the graphs (page 4 onwards) it says 512KB. Shouldn't take long to fix.
Dfere - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
I liked the article- not for the graphs. I rad the beginning, some of the set up and the conclusions, and the comments. I am not a tech head! I agree it is nice to get a broad based analysis/market comparison, especially on the "value" segment orbusiness stuff. (CPA here).JarredWalton - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Fixed, thanks! (Not as easy to correct as you might suspect... graphs require a bit more effort, but at least it was only one change per graph.)YellowWing - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
No mention of 64 bit support in the 805, is 64 bit possible?Viditor - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Yes...
FSB = 533 MHz
Cache = 2x1MB
Clockspeed = 2.66 GHz
Virtualization = No
Enhanced Speed Step = No
EM64T = Yes
YellowWing - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
ThanksJackPack - Friday, April 7, 2006 - link
Yes, of course.