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.
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.
The X264 benchmark loves multi-core CPUs and the Phenom II is especially potent in this test. The X3 720 outperforms the Intel E8400 by a large margin thanks to its third processing core. The X4 810 outperforms the Q6600 by a healthy margin as well here.
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