AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Xvid Encoding:

For our first multitasking scenario, we decided to fire up our Xvid Encoding benchmark in the background, while processing the folder of photographs from our Photoshop Elements 4.0 test. The time quoted is the time taken to finish auto-fixing the photographs while the Xvid Encode test is running in the background.

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Audio Encoding:

The second test was similar to the first, in that Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 was our foreground task. However, this time we loaded our LAME MT audio encoding benchmark in the background. We have displayed the time for the Photoshop Elements test to be completed.

WinRAR 3.60 with Audio Encoding:

In our final multitasking scenario, we loaded up our WinRAR 3.60 large file compression benchmark in the foreground and our LAME MT audio encoding benchmark in the background. We have displayed the time for the WinRAR 3.60 large file compression test to complete.

As we've seen in previous reviews, AMD's processors appear to handle multi-tasking a little better than Intel's competing parts. That's down to the fact that there is much less memory latency (and more memory bandwidth) in AMD's architecture, which is thanks to the on-die memory controller. The situation remains the same here, with the X2 6000+ outperforming the E6700 in all three multi-tasking scenarios.