Media Encoding Tests
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.
The Kabini system is able to cross the 50 FPS mark in our Handbrake testing, a strong result for the platform we are looking at. Considering that this system is running at about a quarter of the power of the Core i3-2105 desktop part running at half the speed shows impressive efficiency.
x264 HD Benchmark
The popular x264 benchmark available from graysky does a two-pass H.264 encode on 1080p video. The first pass appears to be more clock-sensitive while the second pass is more heavily threaded.
(Screenshot shows 720p testing from v4.0, we are using 1080p on v5.0)
Sorry, no comparison results here for you, but we ARE using the new v5.0 of this test that uses 1080p videos rather than 720p. You can use our results here to compare your own testing or other benchmarks across the web.
Dirt3 looked like it was
Dirt3 looked like it was stuttering ; )
It was pretty smooth in
It was pretty smooth in playing it today. Even Bioshock at 720p kind of impressed me.
Could have been YT playback or capture causing a stutter; anything really with streaming video!
I currently have a Windows 8
I currently have a Windows 8 desktop system running on an E-350 that I am using as a home server and I’m quite happy with it. These chips are good for laptops, obviously, but can also be well suited, IMO, to low powered home servers. I’m not running a ton of stuff on mine, just some software raid like stuff (drive bender), some offsite backup software, FTP server etc. But there is a market for low powered devices. The challenge when you are using it like I am, primarily as a NAS with a bunch of redundancy on it, is getting enough sata ports, or expansion slots that you can add sata cards into.
I don’t find myself using a
I don’t find myself using a laptop a ton anymore with my tablet, but a cheaper device with this level of performance would be easier to justify, for those times I do want/need more than the tablet.
whats the transistor count ?
whats the transistor count ? and how come the xbox is talking 5 billion transistor count ? on the same-ish technology ? and yet is still based on jaguar cores ? much larger die with ramped up graphics portion and 8 cores ?, or are the PS4 and xbox counting hyper threading cores, as extra cores ? or are they completely different jaguar core apus as yet unseen ? that wont be released to the public ?
xbox1/ps4 have stronger and
xbox1/ps4 have stronger and bigger gpu
Ivy Bridge Ultrabook
Ivy Bridge Ultrabook reference battery capacity isn’t 66.8WHr.
It’s 49Whr,right?
https://pcper.com/reviews/Mobile/Intel-Ivy-Bridge-Core-i5-3427U-Ultrabook-Platform-Review-Making-Slower-Faster