Benchmarks: QX9775 Up To 15% Faster At 4.00 GHz
By overclocking the Skulltrail system to 3.60 GHz and 4.00 GHz, we were able to improve its performance by 8.1% and 14.9%, respectively. Since only five applications are able to take advantage of the Skulltrail's eight cores, the overall performance improvement is relatively small. Nonetheless, overclocking still pays off.
| Skulltrail 2x Extreme QX9775 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Games | 4.00 GHz | 3.60 GHz |
| Warhammer Mark of Chaos | 18.6% | 9.3% |
| Supreme Commander | 4.1% | 1.7% |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 18.1% | 9.0% |
| Serious Sam 2 | 14.2% | 6.6% |
| Quake 4 | 18.3% | 10.0% |
| Prey | 3.2% | 1.8% |
| Audio | ||
| iTunes | 19.0% | 9.5% |
| Lame | 20.3% | 11.3% |
| Video | ||
| Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus | 5.1% | 1.3% |
| Xvid | 11.1% | 6.8% |
| DivX | 10.4% | 6.5% |
| Mainconcept H.264 Encoder | 13.2% | 7.9% |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 | 16.2% | 11.7% |
| Clone DVD 2 | 17.6% | 9.4% |
| Office | ||
| AVG Antivirus | 19.0% | 9.5% |
| WinRAR | 13.6% | 7.6% |
| Adobe Photoshop CS3 | 19.4% | 10.8% |
| PowerPoint to PDF | 19.6% | 11.8% |
| 3D Rendering | ||
| 3D-Studio Max 9 | 18.2% | 9.1% |
| Cinema 4D Release 10 | 19.4% | 10.4% |
| Total: | 14.9% | 8.1% |
This table shows the performance increase when the QX9775 CPUs are overclocked to 3.60 GHz and 4.00 GHz.
When the Skulltrail system is overclocked to 3.6 GHz, it is only 6.5% faster than the QX9770 at its default speed.
Benchmarks - QX9775 34.1% Faster Than The Q6600
Compared to a Core 2 Quad Q6600, the Skulltrail is 34.1% faster. That's not exactly a huge accomplishment for a system with this kind of a price tag.
The QX9775 offers 51.7% better performance than a Core 2 Duo E6750.
| Skulltrail 2x Extreme QX9775 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Games | Q6600 | E6750 |
| Warhammer Mark of Chaos | -3.4% | -10.9% |
| Supreme Commander | 2.8% | 8.4% |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Serious Sam 2 | 15.5% | -0.5% |
| Quake 4 | 16.6% | 10.7% |
| Prey | 4.9% | 1.3% |
| Audio | ||
| iTunes | 30.2% | 17.5% |
| Lame | 35.3% | 21.8% |
| Video | ||
| Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus | 11.4% | 16.5% |
| Xvid | 10.3% | 6.0% |
| DivX | 16.9% | 40.3% |
| Mainconcept H.264 Encoder | 81.6% | 178.9% |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 | 38.7% | 113.5% |
| Clone DVD 2 | 28.6% | 16.8% |
| Office | ||
| AVG Antivirus | 27.0% | 12.7% |
| WinRAR | 50.0% | 41.5% |
| Adobe Photoshop CS3 | 31.2% | 20.4% |
| PowerPoint to PDF | 31.4% | 18.6% |
| 3D Rendering | ||
| 3D-Studio Max 9 | 113.6% | 245.5% |
| Cinema 4D Release 10 | 129.9% | 265.7% |
| Total: | 34.1% | 51.7% |
This table compares the performance of the Skulltrail system to that of a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and a Core 2 Duo E6750.
