Performance

General Performance

SYSmark 2007 is an all-around benchmark that measures the system’s performance at solving typical tasks in popular applications. The resulting picture can be regarded as an overall performance rating of the tested CPUs. You can see the Core 2 Duo E7200 is a lucky replacement to the Core 2 Duo E4700. The new core and the faster FSB provide an 18% performance boost notwithstanding the somewhat lower clock rate of the newer CPU.

As a matter of fact, the Core 2 Duo E7200 is about as fast as the full-featured 65nm Core 2 Duo E6750 which hasn’t become outdated yet due to the deficit of Wolfdale CPUs. On the other hand, the Core 2 Duo E7200 is slower than the junior model of the E8000 series. Costing $30 more, the Core 2 Duo E8200 outperforms the E7200 by 6%.

The Athlon 64 X2 is quite uncompetitive. One of the senior representatives of AMD’s dual-core series is far behind the new Core 2 Duo E7200 although looked passably well against the older Core 2 Duo E4700. So, CPUs with the K8 micro-architecture are unable to compete not only with full-featured Wolfdale CPUs but even with cheaper versions of them.