Intel Core I7 980X Extreme Review An Overall Look At The Core I7 Family Encoding Performance

The x264 HD Benchmark also shows the Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition offering a considerable performance gain over the Core i7 975 EE. The six-core processor was 13% faster than the latter in this benchmark with 90.3fps, while beating the Core i7 960, 950 and 920 by 18%, 24% and 39% margins, respectively. Last but not least TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress was used for an avi to mpg conversion test, where the Intel Core i7 980X proved to be 12% quicker than the Core i7 975 EE – taking just 6:44 minutes in total versus 7.29 with the latter. The Intel Core i7 980X Extreme was 14% faster than the Core i7 960, 21% faster than the 950 and 30% faster than the Core i7 920, beating this last one by almost three minutes.