POV-Ray and Cinebench 9.5 both take advantage of the four cores the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 has, as is clearly shown in the POV-Ray benchmarks and the multi-threading tests of Cinebench. The new Athlon 64 X2 6000+ has performance very similar to the Core 2 Duo E6400, while in the Cinebench multi-threading tests it is faster than all Core 2 Duo processors except for the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Core 2 Extreme QX6700.

Viewperf 9.03 is a synthetic benchmark developed by Spec.org that tests system performance in specific professional applications that use OpenGL. It is comprised of 9 viewsets, each one for a different application. It is important to remember that since this a graphical benchmark it also takes the video card used during the testing (ATI Radeon X1950XTX) into account.

The Viewperf 9.03 tests show the Core 2 Duo processors as the fastest performers. Viewperf is a benchmark that is very sensitive to the motherboard's chipset. The application's sensitivity can clearly be seen in the SW-01 viewset in which all AMD processors suffer in terms of performance, while the Intel Core 2 Duo line of processors perform quite well.

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ performs better than all other AMD processors in the Viewperf tests, confirming that its faster operating frequencies gives it an advantage over other AMD processors.