AMD A8-5600K Trinity Desktop APU Review

x264 HD Video Encoding

Simply put, the x264 HD Benchmark is a reproducible measure of how fast your machine can
encode a short HD-quality video clip into a high quality x264 video
file. It’s nice because everyone running it will use the same video clip
and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate
internal benchmark (in frames per second) for each pass of the video
encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently. All
these factors make this an ideal benchmark to compare different
processors and systems to each other. We are using x264 HD v5.0.1 for this test.

This application did fairly well when run on 12 threads, as you can
see from the screen shot above. The first pass was not using all of the processing power available on the cores, but on the second pass all 12 threads were at
~95% load.

Benchmark Results:The AMD A8-5600K fell right between the AMD A10-5800K and the A8-3870K with average rendering speeds of 31.9625 frames per second on the first pass and 7.125 frames per second on the second pass.