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These very popular benchmarks scale with both the processor and graphics card. The Vantage Edition features two CPU tests based on PhysX and artificial intelligence.

I ran the GTX260 SLI overclocked to 700MHz on the GPU and 1100MHz on the memory to maximize the score.

Here is the compare url for 3DMark06: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11294239

First of all, what can be noted is that the difference between the Phenom II X4 955 and the X4 42 is well within the fluctuation of these synthetic benchmarks, which further supports the fact that the processor is the same, except it has a high leakage. At 4.6GHz, the X4 42 provided a great increase in all benchmarks, which lead to astounding scores.