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AMD Socket AM3: X2 550 Black Edition Review 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.
For the single threaded test, the X2 550 fares pretty well, using its clock speed advantage to beat out several more expensive CPUs, and it only loses to the E8400 by only 3.2%. When overclocked, the X2 550 has enough juice to beat out everything on the list except for the overclocked x3360.
In the multithreaded test. the quads and triples really take over, leaving all the dual cores at the bottom. Here the stock E8400 beats the X2 550 by 3.1%. 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.
The PovRay test seems to favor the AMD architecture a little better than Cinebench does, though surprisingly the X2 is still beat out by the X4 955 when overclocked, and by the E8400 at stock by 2.7%.
In the multithreaded test, the dual cores are again outclassed by the quad cores, and the E8400 beats the X2 by 3.9%. 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.
In the first test, the X2 550 BE beats out the E8400 by 7.8%, and in the second test, the X2 wins by less than 1%.
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