Legit Processor Reviews

Intel Core i7-3820 3.6GHz Processor Review

Manufacturer: Intel
Product: BX80619I73820
Date: Thu, Feb 02, 2012 - 10:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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x264 HD Encoding

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark

Simply put, the x264 HD Benchmark 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 12 threads, as you can see from the screen shot above. The first pass was not using all of the processing power available on the cores, but on the second pass all 12 threads were at ~95% load.

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The x264 HD benchmark showed the Intel Core i7-3820 doing really well with an average of 38.4 FPS on the more time consuming second pass. This was just slightly faster than the Core i7-2700K, but slower than the two hexa-core processors that beat it.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The $285 Sandy Bridge-E Processor
Page 2 - The Test Systems
Page 3 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5
Page 4 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 5 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5
Page 6 - Handbrake
Page 7 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Page 8 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 9 - PCMark 7
Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 11 - Resident Evil 5
Page 12 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 13 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 14 - Total System Power Consumption
Page 15 - Intel Core i7-3820 CPU Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions