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.
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.
The first pass results of x264 v5.0 show a sizeable increase in frame rate (35%) and a nice jump over the SNB-E result as well (12%). The second pass also has the 4960X with the advantage but it shrinks a bit to just 24% over Haswell.
“…a set of three of
“…a set of three of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX TITANs. At $999 MSRP, the TITAN is the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market and running three of them in SLI gives us a total of 18GB of graphics memory (!!).”
No it doesn’t. VRAM is mirrored in SLI/CF. Therefore, three Titans still effectively have 6GB of VRAM.
IF your a average gamer
IF your a average gamer ….don’t bother.
Love one but just cannot get over the price.
Not to be fanboy ish but shouldn’t gamers be moving to 8 core
AMD. I know intel is faster, but two years down the road into xBONE and PS4 life cycle it might just be an advantage.
8 Core is great, but from
8 Core is great, but from what I’ve heard, most games aren’t well optimized for 8 cores.
Hence why most gamers used to recommend the 2 core CPU (Duo/Dual). Now, 4 cores is preferred. Eventually, most games will be optimized for 8 cores. I do recall seeing some new games that when it detect additional cores, it will utilize them.
However, note that more cores means lower clock-speed (Ghz) per core. So if you can’t use those additional cores, performance is decreased.
As for other usages such as high computing task, 8 cores are recommended (e.i. Adobe software).
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I’m sure none of the
I’m sure none of the reviewers have wanted to do this, for obvious reasons, and we probably won’t know till more are in the wild, but I’d love to know if these have soldered IHSs or if I need to continue my tradition of de-lidding these things. It will influence my decision to a reasonable degree. I haven’t seen mention of this on any of the reviews so far.
I’ve seen it somewhere..
I’ve seen it somewhere.. Ivy-E is soldered to the IHS.
Any plans to test PCI Express
Any plans to test PCI Express 2.0 vs 3.0 on the “E” platforms?
There just isn’t the single
There just isn’t the single threaded IPC gains that we need for anybody to justify an upgrade from Sandy Bridge onwards. There’s also no gains in overclocking headroom either, which makes the processor a pretty lackluster offering over the last generation from Intel.
What’s up with the slow
What’s up with the slow memory latency of the 4960X? Does having 4 memory channels affect the latency?