WORKLOAD TESTS
We use a 150MB 1080p MP4 video and convert it to standard iOS format using Xilisoft Video Converter. GPU acceleration is disabled and conversion is purely done by the CPU.
We use WinRAR 4.0 on default settings to compress 3340 files of varying types including MP3s, various images and documents for a total of 2.40GB of data.
We resize 3,030 varying images of different formatsand sizes (a total of 883MB) to our standard 1200×900 resolution and note the time it takes to finish up the batch job.
X264 HDÂ is a free benchmarking tool that shows the performance of a system by converting a 720p video clip.
At a glance:Â Here we can see the Phenom II catch-up a bit, managing to partially bring itself more glory in real-world applications.