Unigene Heaven 4.0
Website: http://unigine.com
From Unigene's website: Heaven Benchmark with its current version 4.0 is a GPU-intensive benchmark that hammers graphics cards to the limits. This powerful tool can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system's potential under maximum heat output. It provides completely unbiased results and generates true in-game rendering workloads, supporting DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.0.


Video encoding with Handbrake
Website: http://handbrake.fr

HandBrake is a free tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. We used the standard 0.9.9 version an also the OpenCL and Quick Sync Beta versions.


Video encoding with Cyberlink MediaEspresso

MediaEspresso supports various guises of hardware acceleration including AMD's Accelerated Parallel Processing, Nvidia's Cuda and Intel's Quick Sync. We used version 6.7 and ran tests with hardware acceleration enabled and disabled while converting a 1080p 1GB .mov video file to 720p H.264.