Legit Processor Reviews

Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz CPU Review

Manufacturer: Intel
Product: Intel G620 Retail Boxed Processor - BX80623G620
Date: Mon, Aug 01, 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 Pentium Processor G620 costs $73.87 shipped and for the price it does fairly well considering it scored 64 FPS on the first pass and 11 FPS on the second pass. For example if you break down the performance to the street price you get ~0.87 FPS per dollar that you spent on the Intel Pentium Processor G620.  The Intel Core i7-2600K has by far the best performance of all the processors tested, but it also costs the most at  $323.36 shipped. If you check out the performance per dollar you get just ~0.46 FPS per dollar on this processor, which means you get the Intel Pentium G620 offers really good performance for the amount that you are paying.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Intel Pentium G620 Processor Review
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 - PCMark 7
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 12 - Resident Evil 5
Page 13 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 14 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - Intel Pentium G620 Overclocking
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions