Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Ivy Bridge Processor Review

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 is a blazingly fast media universal converter that can transcode your videos, photos and music files and out put them to a huge range of portable devices including mobile phones, portable media players and even game consoles. With technologies like Smart Detect, Direct Sync and CyberLink’s TrueTheater video enhancements, you can not only forget about complicated format, resolution and output settings, but your converted file will come out the other side looking better than when it went in! MediaEspresso 6.5 can be used to output your slideshows and videos to mobile devices like an iPhone, iPod, PSP or Zune. Pre-set profiles eliminate the need for any complex settings and you can just drag-and-drop the video files you want to convert straight into the application.

We downloaded a clip that was encoded at 24 frames per second (fps) at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (1080p). We then used MediaEspresso 6.5 to convert this clip to work on our iPhone. If you have this software and want to try it out yourself you can download the Coral Reef Adventure (IMAX) 1080p clip that we used from this site. This benchmark only used ~40% of the processor and looks like it is only threaded for up to ten threads as two of the threads were not under any load.

Benchmark Results: With hardware acceleration disabled we see that Intel Core i7-3770K beat the Core i7-2700K by a second.

With Quick Sync Video enabled we were able to get much better performance. The Intel Core i7-2700K w/ Quick Sync Video enabled finished in 21 seconds and the Intel Core i7-3770K w/ Quick Sync Video finished in 20 seconds. This is again a 1 second difference between these two processors.