This is an application that really responds well to increased clock speeds OR increased numbers of CPU cores. 3dStudio MAX 9 shows a hefty 41% increase in rendering speed!

The other 3d rendering title in our benchmark suite, Cinema 4d, also scales very well with higher clock speeds.

Photoshop doesn't seem as eager to utilize the extra speed.

AVG shows a strange dormancy and the results don't budge.

The file compression program WinRAR delivers a notable boost but not as much as some of the other applications we've seen.

And that's the last of the applications, so now we can have a look at the synthetics to see if they tell the same story as the real-world results.