AMD Phenom vs. Athlon Core Shootout

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The H.264 encoder by Mainconcept is a performance hog: you'll save a quarter of your time by running it on a single Phenom core when compared to a single Athlon 64 X2 core.

Studio 11 benefits a bit by Phenom's improved core.

The time savings when transcoding MPEG-2 video into DivX is more than noticeable.

Video transcoding into XviD is also much faster on a Phenom core than on an Athlon 64 X2.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.