Intel Pentium D 805 - Dual Core on a Budget

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%.