AMD Athlon II X2 260 Dual Core Processor Performance Review

x264 HD Video Encoding

Simply put, it 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.

Benchmark Results:The X264 HD Video Encoding relies on multi-core performance, as you can tell from the chart above the rate of encoding suffered due to the AMD Athlon II X2 260 being limited to two cores.