AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE (65nm)

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.

The 65nm Athlon 64 X2 5000+ EE was slower than its 90nm brother in our compression scenarios.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.

Decompression and decryption shows a similar pattern, too.