AMD FX60

Tested with COSBI OpenSourceMark (OSMark) benchmarking tool,

I use Ulead's VideoStudeo 9.0, a video editing and rendering package. Starting with a 1 hour and 6 minute MPEG 2 video captured from TV, I exclude the commercials, creating six clips that total 42 minutes and 39 seconds in length. For the first run-through, I simply render these clips into a final MPEG 2 video using the exact same parameters found in the clips themselves. Typically, this is a fast task for VideoStudio because it’s simply cutting the original video at the marked spots and stitching the cuts back into a single MPEG 2 video file.


For the second version of the test, I change the parameters for the final video, modifying video and audio bit rates, frame style, and compression rates. Not only does this provide more work for the CPU, but it also causes VideoStudio to display the video as it’s rendering. It’s a system-wide stress test that no Athlon to date has been very good at. The FX60 didn’t prove to be an exception.

With all of that said and noted, don't get caught up in brand name wars. The real question here is not whether Intel is better than AMD or vice versa but whether the difference in the lengths of the bars is worth the price difference among the chips in question for what you want to do.

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