TMPEG DivX 6.8 Encoding

Website: DivX and TMPEG

We used the latest version of TMPEG 4.5.2.255 and DivX 6.8, and encoded a 980MB 720x480px 4-8k VBR MPEG-2 video with 48KHz PCM stereo sound into a 320x240px DivX under the "Mobile" profile with a single pass, with 112kbps LAME .MP3 joint stereo sound. This included setting multi-threading and SSE2/4 where possible in the DivX settings.


Yet again, the overclocked Core i7 920 leads the table by a healthy margin - 14 percent over a Core i7 965 four times its price, and 38 percent faster than the Core i7 920 at its stock speed. Compared to the closest non-Core i7 CPU, it's 34 percent faster - a very healthy margin.

Sony Vegas Studio Platinum 8

Website: Sony Creative Software

Sony Vegas Movie Studio is an industry leading movie making application that offers support for a large variety of video formats. It can handle the latest multi-channel audio and high-definition content, even including AVCHD and HDV. Further features include mixing and editing, video composite creating and video restoration among others. As a highly threaded application it makes great use of multi-core processors.

Here we use the free version: Platinum 8, to transcode a 720x480px 945MB raw .MTS with PCM audio into a 720x480px WMV9 at VBR90, with 5.1 channel 44.1KHz 64Kbps WMA audio.


Yet again, in video encoding the overclocked Core i7 920 scores a good lead of seven percent compared to the i7 965 and 25 percent over the stock 920 - that's not as much as previous encodes, but still a solid improvement none-the-less. Compared to the previous generation of Intel CPUs, it's over 30 percent faster as well.