Intel Pentium G850 Sandy Bridge 2.9GHz CPU Review

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Manufacturer:	Intel
Product:	Intel G850 w/ PN: BX80623G850
Date:	Mon, Aug 08, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By:	Nathan Kirsch -
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Handbrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It is popular today as it allows you to transcode multiple input video formats to h.264 output format and is highly multithreaded.

This workload is a 43-second HDV. The input file is encoded in Mpeg format. Video encode parameters are 23.9mbps, 1440*1080, 29.9fps. Audio encode parameters are 384 kbps, 48kHz, 2channel, mpeg audio version 1 layer 2. File size is 128MB. The workload is encoded into h.264 output format using the preset - high profile. HandBrake version 0.9.5 was used for benchmarking.

Benchmark Results: HandBrake version 0.9.5 loves having multiple physical CPU cores and threads to work with. The Intel Pentium G620 and G850 both didn't fare too well on this benchmark since they are both dual-core processors without Hyper Threading technology. The Intel Pentium G850 was able to finish the workload 35 seconds faster than the Intel Pentium G620, which made it 10.5% quicker. The Intel Pentium G850 has a 300MHz faster CPU clock frequency, so it is ~11.5% faster on paper and it looks like this nearly holds true in the real world also.

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Review Index

Page 1 - Intel Pentium G850 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 - Discrete Graphics Card Performance
Page 16 - Total System Power Consumption
Page 17 - Intel Pentium G850 Temperature Testing
Page 18 - Intel Pentium G850 Overclocking
Page 19 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions

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