Simply put, it is a reproducible measure of 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.

Changelog:
- Added the AMD Phenom II X4 945 desktop processor at stock speed, as well as overclocked to 3.45 GHz and 3.6 GHz.
- Added the improved results of the Intel Core i7-920 desktop processor
- Added the Intel Core i3 530 desktop processor.
- Added the AMD Sempron 3000+ desktop processor.

Program Information Category: Benchmarks Type: Free Version: 3.08 Size: 32.2MB Works on: Windows Product page: here