Rendering
In Blender, I use the BMW 27 scene. The Corona Renderer might be old, but it still provides valuable insights into the CPU’s rendering capabilities.
Davinci Resolve is one of the best video editing apps, even in its free version. I use it to extract a 4K video without utilizing the GPU’s capabilities.
Media Encoding
I convert a 4K video to HD format with 30 frames per second with Handbrake, using three different compression algorithms.
Puget Benchmarks
Puget is a PC-building company specializing in video editing systems. They’ve created several benchmark tests for popular video and photo editing applications to evaluate their systems. They were also kind enough to provide free (and paid) versions of them to the rest of the world.
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best review from Hardwear Busters master Aris
I do know that gaming in 4k is mostly GPU bound. Nevertheless would you mind doing the same tests for games in 4k?
I believe there is no point in losing more time in every CPU review for 4K testing, even QHD, since the GPU sets the limits in these resolutions and not the CPU. Wish I had more time for every review, but I don’t.
Looking at the 2nd page – so it’s just a (low level) ppm driver lingering in the system that was likely ignored by amd installer after (other) reviewers switched the cpu ? techpowerup reviewer claims he had to reinstall windows.
If device manager/sc.exe or registry and/or powercfg.exe (or any combination of those) was all that it took to clean that up, that’s pretty funny.