785G And H55: Two Powerful Mini-ITX-Based Desktop Solutions

Features
By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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When it's time to look into small form factor machines, do you pick AMD or Intel? With an increasing number of motherboard companies offering Mini-ITX platforms with powerful desktop performance in a diminutive footprint, we compared two modern options.

Benchmark Results: Applications

Creation of a PDF document from a 100+ page PowerPoint file takes quite some time, and it's quickest on the Intel dual-cores, since the app isn't very well threaded.

Photoshop is well-optimized for multiple threads, allowing AMD’s Phenom II X4 905e to compete with the Intel dual-core CPUs.

WinRAR is thread-optimized, but it doesn’t run as well on AMD's quad-core model as it does on Intel's dual-core chips.

WinZip is single-threaded. Since Intel pairs high clock speeds with more performance per clock, it dominates here.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos