Encoding and Chip speed

[ryudo_r]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Athlon MP chips. I am currently using my brother's Athlon XP 1900 and was thinking about a dual chip system for myself. Does anyone out there know if having a dual chip system makes encoding faster?

Thanks!

[vcdfreak]

Personally I find this quite informative:

http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MjU3LDQ=

But keep in mind that the TMPGEnc portion, it's comparing 2-CPU with 1-CPU setup instead of comparing with a XP processor. Generally the AMD chipset is slower than VIA chipset for single processor setup. By how much? Not sure. Probably 10-20%.

You might get ~40% gain in speed when you use TMPGEnc.

Also note that only Adobe Premiere 6.0 gets the speed gain if dual processor is used if you study the benchmark carefully. Premiere 5.0 won't be the case.

I realize many people misinterpreted benchmark quite often especially when it comes comparing a Athlon with a P4. Generally P4 is faster for applications optimized for P4. But now a 1.4GHz PIII-S outperforms Ahtlon XP 1800+. Athlon is generally a overclocked version of PIII. But please don't argue any further. We have enough of that. Also there is a website worth reading about this. It's written in a very non-speculative way:

http://www.emulators.com/docs/pentium_4.htm

[vcdfreak]

Sorry it should not be 40% gain in speed. Instead I am speculating a 15-20% gain after carefully calculation. 25% from the chart - ~5-10% slower AMD chipset performance lag.