It’s been a little while since we last dove into CPU workstation testing in a meaningful way, so we’re going to get things up to speed here, and see where things stand in early 2021. With Intel’s 11th ...

So I recently purchased a camcorder for home movies and expect to start getting into some video encoding, and I figure now is the time I finally get into a quad-core. My planned software is Adobe ...

I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

Hey!Watch, a new Web-based video encoding service that's both free and pretty speedy if you've got a good connection. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

Last night over dinner here in Taipei, Intel said that video encoding has always been a task designed for the CPU – and nothing will change that in the future. We were talking about CUDA and how ...

Using HandBrake we converted a 560MB mkv file to the mp4 format and measured the frame rate each processor was able to achieve. Processors with multiple cores will have a natural advantage in this ...

The CPU (Central Processing Unit, or simply “processor”) is arguably the most important component in a computer, perhaps only second to the GPU if you’re a gamer. However, upgrading to the best ...

Content creators, start your engines. Today, Adobe officially rolled out hardware encoding support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder, letting you lean on ...

This is the first part of an investigation into game streaming, a topic that we've been requested on before – particularly after we review CPUs – but that has purposely been left out because it's ...