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Review: AMD Athlon II X4 620 and 630: introducing the budget quad-core CPUs

by Tarinder Sandhu on 16 September 2009, 05:00 4.1

Tags: Athlon II X4 620, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Multithreaded examination

CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render
AMD Athlon II X4 620 (2.6GHz, 2MB L2)Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2)
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Pov-ray 3.7.0 beta 34 - 64-bit
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Punching well above its £75 weight, the Athlon II X4 620 keeps parity with the 25 per cent more-expensive Q8200 once the cores are loaded up.

StaxRip X264 + AAC encoding - pass one
AMD Athlon II X4 620 (2.6GHz, 2MB L2)Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2)
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StaxRip X264 + AAC encoding - pass two
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A welcome surprise, x264 encoding is faster on the AMD chip.