Multi-threaded media encoding
Our LAME WAV-MP3 encoding test is a lightly multi-threaded app. In this case, Intel's Core Microarchitecture still humiliates AMD. The Quad FX may be slightly quicker than the FX-62, but it's still over 20 per cent behind Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700.
Sadly for AMD, video encoding remains one of Intel's fortes. So here again the Quad FX simply can't keep up with Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Turning on Enhanced Multithreading in DivX does narrow the gap by 10 per cent, but that still only reduces it to 30 per cent. That's a lot of ground to make up.
