We upgraded Quake 4 to version 1.4.2 and ran its new multiplayer demo id_perftest at 1280x1024x32 with SMP option enable (which allows Quake 4 to recognize and use more than one CPU), under two scenarios: first with image quality settings configured at “low” and then with image quality settings configured at “high.” You can check the results below, given in frames per second.

On Quake 4 is where probably the smaller memory cache showed some difference. With video quality set to “low,” Core 2 Duo E6700 was 6.57% faster than Core 2 Duo E7200, while Core 2 Duo E6600 was 3.94% faster than the reviewed CPU.

Enabling image quality settings Core 2 Duo E7200 achieved a performance on the same level as Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Duo E6600.