Inexpensive Dual-Core: AMD Athlon X2 vs. Intel Pentium. Page 8

[05/20/2009 06:13 PM | CPU]
by Ilya Gavrichenkov

It is no secret that contemporary processors priced between $60 and $80 offer sufficient performance for a mainstream home or office PC. But how could we pick the best CPU for our particular needs? Trying to answer this question we are going to compare Athlon X2 on Kuma core with a Pentium on Wolfdale-2M core. Read more in our review!

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Video Encoding

Once again we see that DivX codec is better optimized for CPUs on Core microarchitecture. However, the getting more popular x264 codec gives the winners laurels to AMD Athlon X2 processors on K10 microarchitecture.

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