Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - Entering 45nm
Results - Cinebench 10 and XMpeg 5.03
Results - Cinebench 10 and XMpeg 5.03
Media performance is an area that the Core microarchitecture has shown great improvement in the past and the new SSE4 is supposed to give the QX9650 a much bigger boost. In these two benchmarks, we have two industry standard tools in imaging and video compression. Cinebench 10, which is not SSE4 optimized and DivX 6.7, which is.
Even without SSE4 optimizations, the QX9650 showed marked improvements in rendering speed in both single and multi-threaded operations. Here, the single-threaded speeds were improved by over 8%. With quad-core rendering, the QX9650 completed the render nearly 10% faster then the QX6850.
Running our DVD compression test using the latest SSE4 enabled DivX CODECs, the QX9650 completed our test a whole 40 seconds faster than the QX6850, bringing conversion time down to a mere 4min and 44sec for a 1GB DVD sample file. Considering both processors are of the same class and speeds, this is an impressive achievement indeed.