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Celeron E1200: Dual-Core Processor Almost for Free (page 9)

Category: CPU

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 01/14/2008 | 05:11 PM ]

Media Content Encoding

The situation with media content encoding is exactly as we have expected. We have already pointed out that cache memory size doesn’t matter that much in this type of applications. Therefore, the performance of dual-core Celeron processors is primarily determined by its clock frequency. You can clearly see it from the results demonstrated by the CPU overclocked to 3.4GHz: it is much faster than even Core 2 Duo E6750.

When working at the nominal 1.6GHz, Celeron E1200 of course cannot compete against its elder brothers with higher nominal clock frequencies. However, two computational cores allow it to outperform single-core Celeron 440 on Conroe-L core, and Core micro-architecture ensure great results against the background of Athlon 64 X2 4000+.