Efficiency: Optimizing The Clock Rate Of AMD's Phenom II X6

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AMD’s six-core CPU is affordable (at least, compared to Intel's Core i7-980X). We're overclocking the Thuban design to see if its efficiency improves from faster clock rates. Comparisons to other quad- and hexa-core processors provide some perspective.

Benchmark Results: Audio/Video

It’s bizarre to see that we need six AMD cores to beat Intel’s top quad-core models.

Video transcoding with HandBrake is much accelerated on the overclocked Phenom II X6.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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