Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on February 21, 2005 6:15 AM EST- Posted in
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Audio/Video Encoding
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DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK
Armed with the DivX 5.2.1 and the AutoGK front end for Gordian Knot, we took all of the processors to task at encoding a chapter out of Pirates of the Caribbean. We set AutoGK to give us 75% quality of the original DVD rip and did not encode audio.
XviD with AutoGK
Another very popular codec is the XviD codec, and thus we measured encoding performance using it instead of DivX for this next test. The rest of the variables remained the same as the DivX test.
Windows Media Encoder 9
To finish up our look at Video Encoding performance we've got two tests both involving Windows Media Encoder 9. The first test is WorldBench 5's WMV9 encoding test.
But once we crank up the requirements a bit and start doing some HD quality encoding under WMV9 the situation changes dramatically:
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DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
you are correct mike (and you too mjz5):-)
DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
You're in luck -- Anand is writing that one personally. In my opinion he's the best there is at explaining technology so that anyone can understand it.And we've got "better" pics of cell, but they have boxes and text all over them to tell what block does what ... that's the best "clean" cell pic we've got.
mjz5 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
new news!! Nothing new from intel, actually that's not new news :-s...nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
also, in the Cell picture, i count 8 cache areas, is there 8 sub processors with their own cache and then a main processor that controlls all the others with its own cache (the dark blue on the right, while the light blue is the sub processors cache?)MIKE
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
:-)yea, find a better quality pic of the Cell processor. and please use small words that the small ppl like me can understand especially in the Cell article next week. i look forward to it, but dont want to be all confused like i am on a lot of your high tech articles.
:-D
MIKE
DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
I can only fix 89 broken things at a time :-)anything else need tweaking?
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
nvm post 3, read this post insteadpage 4 = bottom of page 3... fix it.
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MIKE
JustAnAverageGuy - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
It's fun to watch them add the pages one by one :)nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
wrong graphs on page 4???MIKE
AtaStrumf - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
He, he, no first post for all you first posters >;-)