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| WAV encoding of 717MB file | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE | AMD Athlon X2 6000+ | Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 |
| 135 | 143 | 114 |
| DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE | AMD Athlon X2 6000+ | Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 |
| 410 | 444 | 390 |
Bring in some dual-core-lovin' and the Intel CPU leaps ahead. Incidentally, a Core i7 920 (2.66GHz) completes the same DivX test in 214s, or almost half the time.
| CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE | AMD Athlon X2 6000+ | Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 |
| 5753 | 5318 | 5624 |
There may be clock and architecture disparity between these three ~£65 CPUs, but they all return near-identical CINEBENCH scores, if that's your thing.
| Pov-ray 3.7.0 beta 25a - 64-bit | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE | AMD Athlon X2 6000+ | Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 |
| 899.03 | 1019.26 | 1025.41 |
Yet the X2 7750 falls a little way behind in POV-ray rendering.
On balance, looking at 2D results, what we're seeing is the Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 come out on top (although not by a long way), and the two similarly-priced Athlons trail by a little, swapping positions depending on whether the benchmark favours a better architecture or sheer clock-speed.
