Upgrading from Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 to Core i7-4770K

x264 HD Video Encoding Benchmark

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.

Benchmark Results: Coming in at 218% faster on the first pass and 188% faster on the second, you can really see how the 4770k dominates the Q6600 with video encoding.