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TMPGEnc (Tsunami) :::...

TMPGEnc, or Tsunami as some people know it, is a Windows based video encoder. We used to to encode a 676MB AVI video file to a PAL MPEG-2 file, 720x576 at 25 frames per second. The full details are shown at the bottom of the panels below.

Here's how the author desribes the software:

TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depends on your purpose.

TMPGEnc Video Encoding - 32bit Windows Environment

4000+ Results - Lower is Better

FX55 Results - Lower is Better

48 seconds is no small margin and singles out the FX55 as a great CPU for heavy-duty multimedia processing. Not that the 4000+ is a slouch. 8:47 is an impressive time by any standards for our test file, but it's made to look pedestrian by the FX55.

PiFast to 10,000,000 places:::...

PiFast is an easy-to-use package written by Xavier Gourdon to compute pi with a very large number of digits. We calculate 10,000,000 digits using the Chudnovsky method.

Again the FX55 flexes its muscles, and again its only the FX55 that makes the 4000+'s score look less than impressive despite its obvious power.

CPU RightMark:::...

The CPU RightMark suite is meant for objective measurement of performance of modern and future processors in different computational tasks such as numerical modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphic problems. It focuses on testing the loaded FPU/SIMD units and the CPU/RAM tandem. As a result, we get pure CPU performance, an objective parameter obtained without the influence of other subsystems, like video and disc systems, except the memory one.

We ran the default benchmark.

Again both processors impress, though as expoected the FX55 is once more ahead. Naturally I'd be worried if it wasn't.