EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC. The software has build-in several tests for memory and CPU/FPU.

The AMD memory architecture offers excellent performance. Of course, the lower memory timings of CL4 for the AMD X2 4600+ help a lot:

In the CPU/FPU tests, the Core2Duo chipsets are much faster than the AMD X2 4600+:

Looking at the overall difference in performance, it can be concluded that the  Intel XE6800 is around 48.68% faster than the AMD X2 4600+, while the Intel E6600 outperforms by 28.02% the AMD X2 4600+. Overclocking the AMD X2 4600+ will probably narrow the difference. Let’s now move on to the Sisoft Sandra 2007 SP1 results

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Sisoft Sandra offers a variety of tests for Memory and CPU.

With Sisoft Sandra 2007 SP1, the XE6800 is quite impressive, outperforming the AMD X2 4600+.

The AMD X2 4600+ is only faster in the RAM Bandwidth tests, as was expected. In the other tests, Intel's Core2Duo processors lead the race.