Sysmark 2004 SE is a productivity benchmark which allows us to simulate various real world environments. We started with a benchmark of overall performance, and following that performed specific environment tests.

For the most part the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is able to perform better than all other AMD processors; however, it falls short of Intel's top of the range offerings. In the office productivity test the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ scores less than the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ and Athlon 64 FX-62. This happens because of the lower memory frequency of the Athlon 6000+, which is 750 MHz, 50 MHz less than the other two processors.

We ran the following applications in these series of tests:

• Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5
• Microsoft Access 2002
• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft Word 2002
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
• ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6
• Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 7.0
• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1
• Adobe After Effects 5.5
• Adobe Photoshop 7.01
• Adobe Premiere 6.5
• Discreet 3ds max 5.1
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• Macromedia Flash MX
• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9