AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Gaming benchmarks

We've run the games at 1024x768 to minimise the bottleneck created by an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card.

In terms of pure throughput the Intel CPUs dominate the Far Cry test.

Quake 4 (SMP on) still runs a little faster on Intel hardware. Splinter Cell, on the other hand, appears to be GPU limited, with high-end CPUs able to push enough geometry to satiate the X1900 XTX.

Performance summary

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+'s performance is entirely predictable. It's the fastest single-socket processor from AMD's ranks. However, in our benchmarks that test all facets of CPU performance we see that it's consistently slower than the similarly-priced Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 and significantly slower than the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and X6800 CPUs.source:www.hexus.net