Photoshop CS4

A must-have tool for all photographers and graphics designers, Adobe Photoshop allows you to create wonders out of poorly taken photos. A small custom action is used to test the basic CPU performance in Adobe’s Photoshop CS4.

AMD shows off good performance with Athlon II X4 620. Not much performance lost by removing the L3 cache either.

Cinebench R10

3D rendering tools are also used to test CPU performance. Cinebench R10, Blender and POV Ray simulate real world performance with integrated benchmark scripts.

3D rendering has been Intel's home ground for a long time, but again, Athlon II X4 620 is almost matching Deneb core at the same clocks, and is not that far behind Intel's Q8200.

Blender 2.49

POV Ray 3.7b