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AMD FX-8350 8-Core Black Edition Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD FX-8350
Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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x264 HD Video 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 v5.0.1 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 second pass of the X264 HD Video Encoding benchmark is much more processor intensive than the first pass. That being said, the AMD FX-8350 was running just a split second behind the Intel Core i7 3770K. The FX-8350 was able to average 15.0475 frames per second while the Intel Core i7 was able to average 15.28 frames per second. The AMD FX-8150 was able to average 12.9925 frames per second which is more than 2 frames per second behind the FX-8350.

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD FX-8350 8-Core Black Edition
Page 2 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 3 - Futuremark 3DMark 11
Page 4 - Aliens Vs. Predator
Page 5 - Battlefield 3
Page 6 - Borderlands 2
Page 7 - DiRT 3
Page 8 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 SP6 Memory Bandwidth
Page 9 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC6
Page 10 - x264 HD Video Encoding
Page 11 - HyperPi & SuperPi
Page 12 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 13 - System Power Consumption
Page 14 - AMD FX-8350 'Pile Driver' Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion