Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 26 February 2026 at 10:50 AM EST. Page 5 of 12. 33 Comments.
For video encoding there are massive performance gains with the newer CPUs thanks to more cores and ISA advances.
This was nearly a two month benchmarking process in total due to the number of benchmarks run as well as forgetting how slow these oldest laptops were.
These CPU-based video encoders were atrociously slow for pre-Haswell CPUs lacking AVX2.