AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.

The X2 6000+ trails Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 in the large file compression test, but it falls behind the E6600 in our small file compression scenario.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.

AMD's Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is one second slower in both large and small file decompression / decryption tests.