Multi-threaded performance: video-encoding, image editing, file compression
But what happens when you crank those cores to the hilt?| wPrime v2.02 multithreaded - 1024M calculation | ||||
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| Intel Core i7 975 EE | Intel Core i7 980X EE | Intel Core i7 920 | Intel Core i7 930 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
| 257.28 | 171.58 | 318.02 | 298.27 | 378.87 |
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wPrime uses as many threads as you can throw at it, to test the computational ability of the CPUs. Core i7 975 EE is about 40 seconds faster than a Core i7 930, which is kind of expected. The same-clocked Core i7 980X is 85 seconds faster than erstwhile champion. The 975 EE is 49.9 per cent slower than you know what, then.
| 7-zip v4.65 internal benchmark | ||||
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| Intel Core i7 975 EE | Intel Core i7 980X EE | Intel Core i7 920 | Intel Core i7 930 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
| 20014 | 29273 | 16358 | 16771 | 12622 |
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46.3 per cent faster in the file-compression benchmark
| Bibble v5.02 - multithreaded image-processing | ||||
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| Intel Core i7 975 EE | Intel Core i7 980X EE | Intel Core i7 920 | Intel Core i7 930 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
| 44 | 30 | 54.1 | 51.5 | 65.9 |
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Bibble is an image-editing program that's tasked to convert 200 photographs from the RAW format (1.63GB) to same-resolution JPGs (267MB). Able to take advantage of cores, the 980X EE is 31.8 per cent faster here.
Media-encoding performance
| x264 HD benchmark - pass one | ||||
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| Intel Core i7 975 EE | Intel Core i7 980X EE | Intel Core i7 920 | Intel Core i7 930 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
| 78.59 | 88.66 | 65.38 | 68.91 | 71.95 |
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The first pass of the media-encoding benchmark is lightly threaded.
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| Intel Core i7 975 EE | Intel Core i7 980X EE | Intel Core i7 920 | Intel Core i7 930 | AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE |
| 31.78 | 46.11 | 25.83 | 27.44 | 21.9 |
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But the second pass ramps up load to near-100 per cent, and 980X is 45 per cent faster than 975 EE.
