3DMark®06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. The software uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to measure gaming performance.

If we believe what 3DMark 06 says, the Intel Q9300 should be faster in games, even by a small margin, compared to the Intel E6750. Is that true? Let's find out by running some other gaming results using Crysis (1024x768) CPU benchmark and Unreal Tournament 3 Demo.

In the Crysis benchmark ,the two processors performed almost equally. There is not any difference that a user could practically experience, either in the min/max/average results.

With Unreal Tournament 3 demo, we saw some small performance gain, in favor of the Intel Q9300.