AMD FX-8150 Processor Review - Bulldozer Arrives - Handbrake

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AMD FX-8150 Processor Review - Bulldozer Arrives

Manufacturer:	AMD
Product:	FD8150FRW8KGU
Date:	Tue, Oct 11, 2011 - 11:00 PM
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 AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 processor with it's eight physical cores does very well in this benchmark and was able to beat out the Intel Core i7-2600K by just over one second. The Intel Core i7-990X is still the front runner, but AMD is catching up!

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Review Index

Page 1 - AMD Brings Bulldozer To The Yard
Page 2 - AMD Bulldozer CPU Architecture
Page 3 - The AMD FX-8150 Press Kit & Water Cooler
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - AMD Turbo Core Details and Windows Index Score
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5
Page 7 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 8 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5
Page 9 - Handbrake
Page 10 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Page 11 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 12 - PCMark 7
Page 13 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 14 - Resident Evil 5
Page 15 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 16 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 17 - Total System Power Consumption
Page 18 - AMD FX-8150 CPU Temperature Testing
Page 19 - AMD FX-8150 CPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions

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