A8-5600K vs. Pentium G2120 CPU Review

Media Espresso 6.5

Media Espresso is a video conversion program that uses the graphics processing unit of the video card to speed up the conversion process. It is also capable of using Intel’s QuickSync technology available in the CPUs from this company. We converted a 449 MB, 1920x1080i, 18,884 kbps, MPG2 video file to a smaller 640×360, H.264, .MP4 file for viewing on a portable device such as an iPhone or iPod Touch.

Here the A8-5600K achieved the same performance level as the A10-5800K and the Pentium G2120, and was slightly faster than the Core i3-2100 (5%). The A8-5600K was 10% faster than the A8-3870K and 13% faster than the A8-3850.