AMD and Xvid

[^D3vIL^]

Im thinking of getting a new PC to encode xvid
it is optimized xvid for amd ?

[northcat_8]

I don't have an answer to your question but having just built a new computer and having been a long time AMD user, I decided to go with a P4 this time and I like it much better than I did the AMD that I have been using for years.

For me anyway, my system is much more stable and is much faster.

Now I did upgrade from a AMD 2.2 (1.8 Ghz) to a P4 2.666 with a 533 FSB, so that is probably why the drastic speed difference but for $75 for Tower, MoBo, Processor and Video Card I couldn't turn it down.

[Baldrick]

AMD!
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2249&p=8

[Soopafresh]

Read the benchmark test results...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=248409

[BJ_M]

INTEL !

(real world stability)

AMD - better bang for the buck , but still hamstrung by some flaky chipsets to use with them (not always though) , latest smp amd systems are very stable , as are some amd64 systems i understand ..

[celtic_druid]

Pretty sure that most XviD developers run AMD CPU's or at least they used to. Koepi's XviD builds are ICL 7 optimised for all CPU's including AMD's.

I also have ICL 7.1 builds and gcc athlon-xp and tbirds builds.

Also XviD contains assembly for 3dnow, SSE2 and MMX. With older AMD chips you don't get the SSE2, but with the 64bit chips you do.

[Gurm]

The pirates and hackers that design the XVID codec undoubtedly have AMD chips.

But Intel chips will still encode ANY video codec faster than their equivalent AMD counterparts. *shrug*

[celtic_druid]

Pirates and hackers?
I wonder what a benchmark with say mencoder running 64bit would compare to a P4 running mencoder under a 32bit kernel?

[winifreid]

If you look at the benchmarks presented by anandtech, it appears that xvid is faster on AMD than Intel. I suspect if you compare on a $ to $ basis, AMD will be way ahead.

[BJ_M]

no - we have not found that to be the case at all .. intel is slightly more expensive, and for network rendering CGI , intel xeon 800fsb systems were slightly faster on some things , amd dual systems on others (both were quite stable) -- on single cpu systems, the prices were even closer and the intel system were generally more stable ..

it is a pointless debate - really ..


they are both pretty good systems now and it is good there are two systems to choice from as it keeps things progressing, and prices low ..

[Pop's]

AMD

http://www.pcpitstop.com/TechExpress.asp?id=JUSA9WEUY4RSE4Z7