Productivity Benchmarks: GIMP / Handbrake
While it may be open source, GIMP is actually one of the most popular free photo editors available right now. It uses both CPU and GPU acceleration for certain tasks. In this test we use an 8K image and use a script to run eight different filters in succession. This is considered a lightly threaded workload since the memory, CPU and storage drive can all play a role in performance.
Video conversion from one format to another is a stressful task for any processor and speed is paramount. Handbrake is one of the more popular transcoders on the market since it is free, has a long feature list, supports GPU acceleration and has an easy-to-understand interface. In this test we take a 6GB 4K MP4 and convert it to a 1080P MKV file with a H.264 container format. GPU acceleration has been disabled. The results posted indicate how long it took for the conversion to complete.
Once again we are seeing Ryzen struggle in a lightly threaded photo manipulation task but it doesn’t have exclusivity on those performance challenges. The Broadwell-E chips which don’t pack in the very specific IPC increases from Intel’s Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures also post lower than expected results. Honestly, if you are pushing filter-heavy photography workloads in GIMP, Photoshop or another similar program, the Kaby Lake chips represent money well spent.
Handbrake on the other hand plays to Ryzen’s strengths in a big way and, much like Adobe Premier Pro, the 1800X posts some extremely respectable conversion times.
GIMP
While it may be open source, GIMP is actually one of the most popular free photo editors available right now. It uses both CPU and GPU acceleration for certain tasks. In this test we use an 8K image and use a script to run eight different filters in succession. This is considered a lightly threaded workload since the memory, CPU and storage drive can all play a role in performance.
Handbrake
Video conversion from one format to another is a stressful task for any processor and speed is paramount. Handbrake is one of the more popular transcoders on the market since it is free, has a long feature list, supports GPU acceleration and has an easy-to-understand interface. In this test we take a 6GB 4K MP4 and convert it to a 1080P MKV file with a H.264 container format. GPU acceleration has been disabled. The results posted indicate how long it took for the conversion to complete.
Once again we are seeing Ryzen struggle in a lightly threaded photo manipulation task but it doesn’t have exclusivity on those performance challenges. The Broadwell-E chips which don’t pack in the very specific IPC increases from Intel’s Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures also post lower than expected results. Honestly, if you are pushing filter-heavy photography workloads in GIMP, Photoshop or another similar program, the Kaby Lake chips represent money well spent.
Handbrake on the other hand plays to Ryzen’s strengths in a big way and, much like Adobe Premier Pro, the 1800X posts some extremely respectable conversion times.