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Phenom II X2 550BE and Athlon II X2 250

Peter G. June 1, 2009 9:00 PM ET in Tech

x264 Benchmark 2.0

The x264 Benchmark 2.0 tool is a nifty script that measures a system’s ability to encode a short 720p video into the x264 format.

phenom2_x264bench1

Results are reported by the tool for both x264.exe version 0.58.747 and v0.59.819M. The results always seem better using the newer of the two, so that is what we report in our charts below.

x264

The X264 benchmark loves multi-core CPUs. It does not love our two dual cores today. If you want to render HD video, go buy something with four or more cores. Benching these chips in x264 was painful.

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4 Comments:

  1. Zuntar
    Modder extraordinaire
    2 Jun '09, 10:19 am

    On the Crysis High settings graph, the two processors reviewed are not on this graph. What am i missing?

    I am curious how these stand against the 7850 Kuma as well, but i know that can be inferred by other reviews. Any thoughts?

  2. Peter G.
    Dept. of Propaganda
    2 Jun '09, 10:50 am

    Fixed the graph. For some reason the graph didn't update when I put in the new processor data. The 7850 Kuma is clocked slower and runs hotter. Subtract a third of the X3 8750's performance and you'll get a good idea.

    I'd take these 45nm chips over the Kuma any day of the week.

  3. Gargoyle
    We can't stop here...
    2 Jun '09, 12:56 pm

    Nice review, Peter!

  4. Cliff_Forster
    Keepin it real
    2 Jun '09, 2:57 pm

    I recently purchased a Kuma 7750 for a budget build I was doing. For $59 and a free copy of "Call of Juarez" from newegg, you can't argue with it, but I will echo what Peter is saying, AMD's 45nm runs cooler, and offers a much easier overclock than the 65nm Kuma.

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