Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Xvid Encoding:

For our first multitasking scenario, we decided to fire up our Xvid Encoding benchmark in the background, while processing the folder of photographs from our Photoshop Elements 4.0 test. The time quoted is the time taken to finish auto-fixing the photographs while the Xvid Encode test is running in the background.

Neither Photoshop Elements or the Xvid codec show massive performance scaling when running in isolation, but we did see some performance scaling when the pair were running together. Our Photoshop Elements test completed around 7% faster than the equally clocked Core 2 Duo E6700.

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Audio Encoding:

The second test was similar to the first, in that Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 was our foreground task. However, this time we loaded our LAME MT audio encoding benchmark in the background. We have displayed the time for the Photoshop Elements test to be completed.

With audio encoding running in the background, our Photoshop Elements test was 16% faster than the Core 2 Duo E6700.

WinRAR 3.60 with Audio Encoding:

In our final multitasking scenario, we loaded up our WinRAR 3.60 large file compression benchmark in the foreground and our LAME MT audio encoding benchmark in the background. We have displayed the time for the WinRAR 3.60 large file compression test to complete.

This kind of performance improvement is more like it – the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was nearly 60% faster than the Core 2 Duo E6700.