AMD Athlon II X4 620: Quad Core For The Masses At $100

Benchmark Results: Audio/Video

Audio Encoding Benchmarks

Apple’s iTunes wants clock speed and performance per clock cycle since it isn’t optimized to take advantage of multi-core processors.

The same applies to Lame. The Core 2 Duo E8600 at 3.33 GHz is tops here.

Video Transcoding Benchmarks

AMD’s Athlon II X4 620 can beat its main competitor, the Core 2 Quad Q8200, in the DivX video transcoding benchmark.

However, AMD’s chip cannot beat the Q8200 in the same test using the XviD codec.

The MainConcept H.264 encoder is well-optimized to take advantage of multiple cores, explaining why the new Athlon II X4 does really well in this benchmark.