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Rendering and Encoding Tests Next up are the rendering and encoding tests. For this, we are going to look at Cinebench, POV-Ray, and x.264-480p. Cinebench 10 Cinebench 10 is a very well known rendering benchmark that can utilize a single CPU, multiple CPUs, or even GPUs. For this test, we used Cinebench 10 64-bit, looking at both single threaded and multi-threaded performance. Higher scores are better.
At stock settings, the X4 940 beats out the stock equivalent of the Q9450 in both the single CPU and the xCPU test. However, the Intel again beats it out in clock-for-clock testing. POV-Ray POV-Ray is another popular rendering benchmark that also supports both single and multiple threads. Test results are measured in Pixels Per Second, and a higher score is better. For this test, we used version 3.7 beta 29.
Again, the story here is practically the same; the 940 X2 wins at stock settings versus the emulated Q9450, but the Intel wins out in per-clock performance. X.264 Encoding Test Finally, we have the X.264 encoding test. In this test, a small video file is encoded into the H.264 format. There are 5 runs that get two passes each; since each run typically performs identically to the other 4, we are just going to report both passes of the first run. Higher scores are better.
X.264 changes things up a bit; once again, the X4 940 beats out a stock Q9450, however, this time the clock-for-clock performance between the the two CPUs is practically identical.
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