i3-4130 Handbrake benchmark request

[Engr62]

I'm thinking about getting an i3-4130 for my home theatre PC. I currently have a Pentium G3258 in the system, but would like to get a little extra video encoding muscle without having to go beyond the 54W i3 (the G3258 is 53W) because I have an Antec ISK 300-150 case with the built-in 150W power supply. Also, I may want to play some games on this system in the future, so I may need more than the 2 threads provided by the Pentium.

Could someone who has an i3-4130 run the Handbrake benchmark described in this thread for me and let me know the results? I can find various websites with reviews of this CPU with Handbrake benchmarks, but I'm specifically interested in the version/video file in that thread since I have tested it on various CPUs I've had.

I'd really appreciate the help.

 

[DownTheSky]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1192?vs=1265

Not a big difference. See how much you can OC the Pentium w/o going overboard with the wattage.

 

[Engr62]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1192?vs=1265

Not a big difference. See how much you can OC the Pentium w/o going overboard with the wattage.

Thanks. I've seen those benches, but I'm interested in the specific bench in my original post if anyone can run it for me.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

i5-4670T?

 

[Auric]

More recent versions of Handbrake give a lot of extra video encoding muscle via QuickSync.

 

[Yuriman]

I'll run it on my 4160 in a few minutes, currently downloading the file.

As far as I can tell, the 4160 is currently the cheapest widely available i3? Where can you get a 4130?

EDIT:

[20:03:48] work: average encoding speed for job is 82.711044 fps

 

[Engr62]

I'll run it on my 4160 in a few minutes, currently downloading the file.

As far as I can tell, the 4160 is currently the cheapest widely available i3? Where can you get a 4130?

EDIT:

[20:03:48] work: average encoding speed for job is 82.711044 fps

Thank you very much for running this for me. I got 88.779274 fps on my G3258 @ 3.2 GHz, so it's probably not worth pursuing the i3. I was going to pick up the i3-4130 used.

 

[Engr62]

I'll run it on my 4160 in a few minutes, currently downloading the file.

As far as I can tell, the 4160 is currently the cheapest widely available i3? Where can you get a 4130?

EDIT:

[20:03:48] work: average encoding speed for job is 82.711044 fps

Actually, the 82.711044 fps seems to be a little low. I usually run the conversion 3 or 4 times until it settles on a consistent FPS.

There is an i3-2100 in the thread (tested by SPBHM) that gets 84.420723 fps. I would expect your i3-4160 to get a higher FPS since it's clocked at 3.6 GHz vs. the i3-2100 at 3.1 GHz (plus more efficient IPS).

Can anyone else with a Haswell i3 run the benchmark for me?

 

[DownTheSky]

Dude. So are you going to make people run benchmarks for you to see results within a few fps difference? Stop fucking trolling. The link I gave you is plenty enough to get an idea. If you want better perf just OC your CPU or buy an i5.

 

[Engr62]

Dude. So are you going to make people run benchmarks for you to see results within a few fps difference? Stop fucking trolling. The link I gave you is plenty enough to get an idea. If you want better perf just OC your CPU or buy an i5.

Wow!

 

[Yuriman]

82fps does seem low. There was probably some background activity affecting the results. Might also have to do with the machine being in single channel.

I found an old spreadsheet with some benchmarks of the i3 4130 machine my wife uses. Best out of 3 runs was 109fps, while my i5 was ~163, and ~214 with a 4.6ghz overclock.

 

[SPBHM]

82 is lower than my lowest run with an i3 2100 (highest was like 88, but I posted a lower result on that thread) using that old version of handbrake, it's not a representative result for the 4130, 109 sounds more like it

 

[soccerballtux]

Actually, the 82.711044 fps seems to be a little low. I usually run the conversion 3 or 4 times until it settles on a consistent FPS.

There is an i3-2100 in the thread (tested by SPBHM) that gets 84.420723 fps. I would expect your i3-4160 to get a higher FPS since it's clocked at 3.6 GHz vs. the i3-2100 at 3.1 GHz (plus more efficient IPS).

Can anyone else with a Haswell i3 run the benchmark for me?

I get 222.7fps on my FX-8310 with BigBuckBunny on Android profile.

This sort of stuff is why I call so many shens on AMD and FX being "out of the game" as it relates to gaming and lay the blame squarely on developers and unfair Intel optimizations that disable SSE extension on non-Intel CPUs.

Normalized to 3.1ghz for comparison that's 160.55FPS, which takes us down to 40FPS/module, or the same performance the i3-2100 is giving us.

So I guess to win my argument I'd have to find a quad-core same-architecture as the i3-2100 with HT, clock it at 3.1ghz, and see if it scales better to 8 cores than the FX parts. I don't see that happening, nor do I think I've seen it.

Hm, my AMD defense is crumbling.

 

[Charlie98]

Wow!

No fooling.

I replaced my G620 Pentium with a i3 2100 in my HTPC... I got it used, too. Nothing super-duper, and I haven't started encoding video with it, yet (it's just easier to do it on my i5 while I sit at the desk) but if you are planning on gaming or whatnot... why not upgrade? You could certainly sell the G3258 and recover some of the outlay for the i3. My HTPC doesn't run any hotter or suck that much more power, and it breathed a little new life into an older platform.

 

[Yuriman]

Based on my own benches and normalized for clockspeed, a Haswell i3 at ~3.1ghz would be ~100fps, or ~50fps per core + HT.

An Ivy Bridge i5 is ~144fps, or ~36fps per core.

I think I'd like to see just how much HT helps the i3.

 

[soccerballtux]

Based on my own benches and normalized for clockspeed, a Haswell i3 at ~3.1ghz would be ~100fps, or ~50fps per core + HT.

An Ivy Bridge i5 is ~144fps, or ~36fps per core.

I think I'd like to see just how much HT helps the i3.

all depends on how good you are at fooling the branch prediction...

 

[Blastman]

I've tested Handbrake encoding to MP4 (including the latest version) with my i3-530 with/without hyperthreading. HT increases performance ~ 25% on my i3-530.

The later versions of i3's should be about the same, so you can estimate performance from that and any clock/clock differences.

 

[jaydee]

Upgrading from G3258 @3.2GHz vs i3 @3.4GHz is not going to produce anything worthwhile. Have you tried overclocking, keeping an eye on the power consumption? That alone would probably bridge most of the gap between the Pentium and i3.

If you could step into i3-4370 @ 3.8GHz (and more cache), that might be something... or i5-4590s @3.0-3.7GHz, that would certainly be something. The i5 is a 65w TDP, which still should be fine. Still uncomfortable with that you could undervolt a tad.