AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 - Attacking the Power Efficiency Angle
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Results - Cinebench 2003, XMpeg 5.03
Results - Cinebench 2003, XMpeg 5.03
Based on the CINEMA 4D software, Cinebench is a widely used processor benchmark because of its real world application performance and highly threaded architecture. Like Lightwave 3D before, this benchmark has always been the stronghold of AMD's Athlon 64 architecture before Intel's Core 2 Duos came out. Although the low end Athlon X2 BE-2350 put on a decent performance here, it still took the 4200+ to match up against the Intel processors, even the E2160.
For multimedia encoding with DivX, the BE-2350 turned out to be only a little faster than the 3800+ while the 4200+ was able to shave nearly one minute off those scores. These aren't really impressive numbers for the BE-2350, but at least it still falls within our expected performance range. Surprisingly, the reduced L2 cache size of the Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 had no affect on its encoding performance and was a whole two minutes ahead of the Athlon X2 BE-2350.
