System Builder Marathon, March 2010: System Value Compared

Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding

Apple’s iTunes encoder is still single-threaded, but it does appear to have a slight preference for Intel processors, even though it ignores three physical and four virtual cores.

Huge HandBrake performance gains for the $750 system’s overclock can be attributed to the builder unlocking the processor’s fourth core. The program appears to have a slight preference for Intel’s technology.

The numbers might be different, but MainConcept’s performance chart looks identical to that of HandBrake.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.