Intel Pentium G7400: For what are two cores with HT (not) enough?

Web performance

From the top, we gradually worked our way down to the class of the iconic Pentium. Its design is quite conservative by today’s standards. The performance of the dual-core processor is at the limit, which begins to complicate the actual execution of the tests. One of the biggest appeals is the low power draw, but that may not be worth much if your processor can’t handle your demands in real time. Or can it?

Speedometer (2.0) and Octane (2.0)

Test environment: We’re using a portable version of Google Chrome (91.0.472.101) 64-bit so that real-time results are not affected by browser updates. GPU hardware acceleration is enabled as each user has in the default settings.



Note: The values in the graphs represent the average of the points obtained in the subtasks, which are grouped according to their nature into seven categories (Core language features, Memory and GC, Strings and arrays, Virtual machine and GC, Loading and Parsing, Bit and Math operations and Compiler and GC latency).








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        1. No. The results are certainly correct. Pentium’s video encoding performance is significantly slower than Core i3 Alder/Comet Lake. It has half the number of cores/threads and lower clock speeds.

              1. No, it looks like the it is done In software in that chart.
                If it has hw encoders and they are utilized, it will be faster than a Ryzen that
                lacks hw encoders and decoders.

                1. You’re right. I overlooked that Victor was asking about hardware encoding. This is still not supported by current processors for AV1. So yes, these tests capture the performance of software encoding.

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