Sadly ScienceMark 2.0 doesn't seem to scale with the number of cores. This benchmark favours higher clock speeds more as a cheap high-docked dual-eore processor (AMDs 6000+) steals the thunder from the likes of the QX:9770 which is ten times cost¬lier. Shockingly the fastest Intel CPUs are clocked at nearly the same clock speeds as the 6000+ which runs at 3.1 GHz; this means AMDs architecture is much bet¬ter at dealing with ScienceMark's computations. We shudder to think what would happen to Intel in this benchmark if a Phenom X4 were to be clocked at around 3.2 GHz.

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The QX9770 and QX9650 are the second and third fastest CPUs in this test, after which its time for the 5600+ to strut it's stuff; this CPU creams the Q8200 which is costs more than twice of the 5600+'s meagre price of Rs 4,600. In terms of encryption Intel's lower CPUs do not scale at all, their Core 2 Quad 8200 is identical to the Pentium E5200. The Q8200 itself is faster than the mighty QX:9650 in terms of memory bandwidth.