New AMD CPUs almost equal to Intel CPUs for Video Encoding

[jabloomf1230]

AMD has recently announced two new CPUs, the FX-55 and the 4000+ and AnandTech has kindly benchmarked various video encoders and compared the two high end AMD processors to the top of the line Intel pentiums:

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

AMD CPUs have now pulled almost even in this area with Intel and continue to outperform Intel in most non-video encoding tasks. AMD's worst performance is with the Pentium-optimized DiVX 5.2.1 encoder and the speed difference is only about 10%.

Also discussed is the new NVidia NForce 4 AMD Socket 939 motherboard with PCI express.

[jimmalenko]

humppph....... almost.

P4s still rule!

[glockjs]

yeah encoding amd is a little behind, but its close...you should see some other tests though. amd is killin it in other area's. ya know, out of that test the amd 64 3400+ interested me the most. its hangin with the big boys at a fraction of the cost 8)

[jimmalenko]

I've got (and had) both at one time or another so don't be misled by my flippant comment.

Both do the job to my satisfaction

[THE RIPPER]

You do realize that the p4 that wins is a ee ,which is about 800$ ,the normal consumer level p4 at 3.6 gets destroyed.

[steveryan]

Why don't they do an AVI to MPEG test? Preferably using TMPEGenc. If anybody has one of these new AMD's how long to convert an hour of AVI to MPEG, roughly?