I just read the AMD quad vs the Intel Dual article.
It was obvious when the review was written there is very little programs that support quad cores making a poor comparison with the Quad core system.
There is a program called Blender which is a 3D modeling program.
Blender in a open source program found at http://www.blender.org/ This program currently supports 8cores. So even testing the dual skulltrail system will scale really well.
Rendering a large frame or a small 10second video is easy open the file and click render.
Blender also records how long it takes to render each frame(but does not make logs).
Some of the pictures will take a long time to render.
I have a Ferrari Enzo on my computer, to render 1 (one) frame takes my computer 13 mins at 800x420 resolution 5xAA
The bench mark can be scaled. For example increase the AA to 16 and change the resolution to 1600x840.
As i said Above this program supports up to 8 cores making it a very good benchmarking program to scale with cores and core frequency.
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