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Originally Posted by TheRyuu
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No they didn't. They did a review with an extremely old build of x264, and a new one, but didn't list the actual revision numbers, and claimed the only difference was that the new one was "AVX-enabled". In reality, AVX doesn't help on Bulldozer because Bulldozer already has move-elimination (except indirectly by saving code size, which helps marginally): the difference was because the versions they used were
years apart.
They're incompetent at best, and I wouldn't trust their other benchmarks either.