Benchmark Results: Audio And Video
The little Sandy Bridge-based processor steals the show in single-threaded iTunes and Lame. This is, of course, a result of great per-clock performance from the Intel chip and two benchmarks that simply do not take advantage of multi-core processors.
Meanwhile, the quad-core Phenom II scores easy victories in the well-threaded HandBrake and MainConcept tests, which benefit more from four physical cores than a pair of Hyper-Threaded cores.