Media Encoding

 

Handbrake


Known mainly for its DVD re-encoding prowess, our test uses the Handbrake command line interface on a full DVD rip to gauge CPU performance.

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Interestingly, the Core i7-3770K runs a bit faster in our Handbrake testing when we disable HyperThreading to simulate the Core i5-3570 CPU; the same is seen with the 2600K/2500 scenario.  Still, the new Ivy Bridge processor is faster than the Core i7-3820 and within a reasonable margin of the 6-core 3960X.

 

x264 HD Benchmark


The popular x264 benchmark available from graysky does a two-pass H.264 encode on 720p video.  The first pass appears to be more clock sensitive while the second pass is more heavily threaded.

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The first pass shows the same kind of results that Handbrake did – higher performance with HyperThreading disabled.  The second pass is very different though as we see nearly a 20% gain in performance by enabling it.  The i7-3770K is 16% faster than the i7-2600K and 11% faster than the Core i7-3820 SNB-E.
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