Synthetic Benchmarks

Possibly the best known and widely used synthetic benchmark, 3D Mark Vantage tests the gaming performance of the PC. PC Mark Vantage on the other hand tests other performance aspects of the PC like video encoding, home entertainment multimedia features, working in an office environment, and basic gaming.

We finally see some numbers Core i5 661 can produce and in Futuremark's benchmarks it handles quite well considering the competition. As for PC Mark Vantage, Core i5 661 simply flies through the tests thanks to its high Turbo Boost frequency. Keep in mind, PC Mark Vantage is a mostly single threaded benchmark.

3D Mark Vantage v1.0.1.

PC Mark Vantage v1.0.1.

wPrime 1024M and SuperPI 1M

wPrime is a benchmarking application designed to use a highly multithreaded approach to calculate the square-roots of large amounts of numbers, while SuperPI calculates pi number to a specified number of digits after the decimal point. Both applications are primarily used by overclockers to check the stability and performance of overclocked CPUs. It's clear from results that wPrime is multithreaded benchmark that uses all of the cores no matter if they are simulated with HyperThreading while SuperPI uses just one core.