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| AMD's Phenom X3 8750 - The Power of 3 | |
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(Author: Michael Schuette, April 27, 2008) | |
AV Digital Content Creation / Media Encoding
DVD-Shrink
DVD-Shrink is among the most popular recode software packages for a number of reasons: It is easy to use, reliable, fast, multithreaded and most of all, it is free!
The triple-core Phenom comes in DFL*
In DVD Shrink we never see the performance monitor go above 35%, even though there is load distribution across all cores, only one is active at any given time. This can be shown using AMD's power monitor utility, which in this particular screenshot shows only Core 2 running at 2.4 GHz whereas Cores 0 and 1 are idling at 1200 MHz, even though Core 1 still shows a nominal 39% load. The load numbers shown here have to be taken with a gran of salt because the switches occur much faster than the update of the GUI. However, there is no doubt that DVD Shrink is running on a single thread only in the case of a triple core CPU, whereas dual cores or quad cores are properly recognized and, more importantly, utilized efficiently.
Nero 8.1
Nero is also extremely popular, in fact, it is almost impossible to purchase an optical burner without a copy of Nero. Most of the Nero versions bundled are older versions, but to make sure that we are not looking at something that was fixed with the latest update, we used revision 8.1, which was the latest release from Nero at posting time of this article. Dual pass "enhanced" recoding from DVD9 to DVD5 format was enabled for better image quality.
Again, the triple-core Phenom not only comes in DFL* but does so by a landslide!
Like in DVD Shrink, we never see the performance monitor go above 35% and AMD's Power Monitor utility only shows a single core running at full speed with the other two cores idling at 1200 MHz. Unlike DVD Shrink, we do not even see a load distribution across the individual cores over time.
* dead f***ing last
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