Review-Gigabyte G1.Assassin: High-end Gaming in “Military” Style, Part 2 (Performance)

MediaEspresso 6.0

MediaShow Espresso 6.0 is the latest version of this popular video encoding software from Cyberlink. The program converts video from one format to the other (available formats include BlackBerry and iPhone-specific video, and others). Media Espresso 6.0 supports AMD (ATI) Stream and NVIDIA CUDA accelerations. The newest version also offers Intel Quick Sync acceleration. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the video conversion process. Less time means better performance.

• Video Source 1: 1920×800; MPEG4; 2min 16sec
• Video Source 2: 1920×1080; MPEG2; 4min

Photoshop CS5

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the latest version of the world’s most famous image editing software. We carried out our test using an action that applies “Photo Merge” and several filters on three TIFF images. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the process. Lower figures are better.

WinZip 15

WinZip is a well-known file compression software. The Zip files produced by this program can be password protected using the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption method. Some new processors are equipped with AES instruction to accelerate this encryption process. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the test. Lower scores are better.

File Transfer Over USB

This test was carried out using 3.233 files measuring 6.81 GB in total, transferred from the internal drive to an external storage and vice versa. Both the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports are used.