Legit Processor Reviews

AMD A8-3850 2.9GHz Llano APU Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Llano A8-3850 APU
Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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x264 HD Encoding

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark

Simply put, it is a reproducible measure of how fast your machine can encode a short HD-quality video clip into a high quality x264 video file. It's nice because everyone running it will use the same video clip and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate internal benchmark (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently. All these factors make this an ideal benchmark to compare different processors and systems to each other. We are using x264 HD v4.0 for this test.

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark

This application did fairly well when run on 4 threads, as you can see from the screen shot above. The first pass was not using all of the processing power available on the four cores, but on the second pass all 4 threads were at ~98% load.

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The x264 HD benchmark is said to be ideal for a benchmark because the application reports fairly accurate compression results for each pass of the video encoding process, and it uses multi-core processors very efficiently. The Intel Core i3-2105 does fairly well in this benchmark, but turned out to be slower than the AMD A8-3850 APU.  Keep in mind that the Intel Core i3-2105 is a dual-core processor with hyper-threading and the AMD A8-3850 is a true quad-core processor.

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD A-Series APU's For Desktop - Lynx
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - CPU-Z, GPU-Z and Windows Index Score
Page 4 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3
Page 5 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 6 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5
Page 7 - Handbrake
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Page 9 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 10 - Hyper Pi
Page 11 - PCMark 7
Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 13 - Resident Evil 5
Page 14 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 15 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 17 - AMD A8-3850 APU Overclocking
Page 18 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions