AMD Radeon HD 7950 Video Card Review
Media Espresso 6.5
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Media Espresso is a video conversion program that uses the graphics processing unit of the video card to speed up the conversion process. We converted a 449 MB, 1920x1080i, 18,884 kbps, MPEG2 video file to a smaller 640×360, H.264, .MPG4 file for viewing on a portable device such as an iPhone or iPod Touch. We also ran this test on our two CPUs (Core i7-980X and Core i7-3960X) in order to compare the difference in performance of using a high-end CPU and a high-end GPU to transcode video.
| Media Espresso 6.5 | Seconds | Difference |
| Radeon HD 7970 |
29 |
3% |
| Radeon HD 7950 |
30 |
|
| GeForce GTX 580 |
44 |
32% |
| Core i7-3960X |
46 |
35% |
| Radeon HD 6970 |
48 |
38% |
| Core i7-980X |
65 |
54% |