PC Performance (January 2009)

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 .