Intel the King of Video Encoding?, The Myth Dispel

[Coop]

<A HREF="http://link" target="_new"> http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/intelamdcpuroundupvideo/index.html </A>

Hard times for intel lovers, videoediting(what all intel lovers are dooing they say), the only thing where Intel was faster is now also taken by AMD ???


THG : The last 5-6 reviews have allways either had skewed results, or just somehow strangely come to a completly diferant conclusion then all of the other sites around.

 

[allanon1965]

sure would be nice if the link worked........

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[Kanavit]

LOL Coop good try. Funny How Tomshardware and Xbitlabs see different.

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[TheRod]

Your link didn't worked for me, this one worked :
<A HREF="http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/intelamdcpuroundupvideo/" target="_new">http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/intelamdcpuroundupvideo/</A>

Interesting results. It only confirm one thing, MANY different benchmark can reveal unexpected results. It's great to see that they actually used more video apps. than other review site.

We are use to many gaming benchmark, but many VIDEO/AUDIO/PRODUCTIVIY bench should benifit anyone... But this would turn reviewing into a tedious and long job...

10 games
10 video
10 audio
10 apps.
10 synthetic
...

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[JP5]

That is interesting, but it looks like the 3.2 was getting the best times? Sometimes the FX was #1, but that doesn't seem fair since the 3.2 EE wasn't in the roundup. Also the common encoding of DivX and Xvid seemed to favor Intel. But in the big scheme of things, I don't really care about 8:00 vs 9:00 encoding times. Both brands are pretty fast.

 

[TheRod]

I agree with you!

What I don't like about Video Encoding bench, is that they usually focus on pure encoding. And I know one thing, most of the time spent in front of my conputer with Adobe Premiere (video editing software) is not with rendering, it's actually applying filters or editing the video. When all this job is done, I don't stay in front of the encoding progress bar to see it going from 0% to 100%.

What is great about game benchmark, it's that you can simulate real gameplay by recording and playing back demo.

For benchmarking Video/Audio/Productivity reviewers should use scripts that simulate different tasks. The results would provide a much more "real" performance of processor.

I know, that a lot of people only do DivX encoding, usually to copy DVD to CDr. It's an important benchmark to keep. But I would like to see more scripted stuff like in games.

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[EugeneMc]

A64 3400+ isn´t neither.

Xvid is absolutely to favor to AMD.

There are seven tests:

-FX wins four: VirtualDubMod, MPEG-2 to xVid; VirtualDubMod, MPEG-2 to WMV9; Mainconcept MPEG Encoder, MPEG-2 to MPEG-1; and Canopus ProCoder AVI DV to MPEG-2.

-P4 3.2 wins three (or P4 EE would win same three and would lose same four because if we see this other review of the same page -russian version, iXBT- http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/athlon-64-3400.shtml we can see that P4 EE loses Canopus and VirtualDubMod MPEG-2 to WMV9, and obviously looking at the results of the other two, xvid and MPEG-1 to MPEG-2, would lose too).

So, Pentium 4 or P4 EE wins three: VirtualDubMod, MPEG-2 to DivX; Mainconcept MPEG Encoder, AVI DV to MPEG-2; and Cinema Craft Encoder, AVI DV to MPEG-2.


The method followed for the roundup, is explained in this other article:

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/video-encoding-method/index.html

Very complete. Possibly, the most completed and detailed review about video encoding in the web.


And here, audio encoding roundup for Digit-Life (iXBT) too:

http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/intel-amd-cpu-roundup-audio.shtml

Athlon and P4 equaled (eight tests, four each).

 

[Coop]

So it seems we have no reasen not to buy a AMD, When Windows64 bit comes out, there will be nothing the P4 is faster in, and prescott is not gooing to change that very likely.

Athlon64 3000+ is the best buy at the moment,cheap, very fast !(faster then P4 3.2GHz surtenly in games) and you can upgrade the CPU with a 3700+ ore maybe a 4000+ ! and you get free performence boost when you install Windows64 if it comes out in a few months...


THG : The last 5-6 reviews have allways either had skewed results, or just somehow strangely come to a completly diferant conclusion then all of the other sites around.

 

[LancerEvolution7]

Did they use SSE2 optimizations?

 

[endyen]

In the conclusions they mentioned SSE2 impact a few times. Many of the benchmark tests are not valid because they are not endorsed by intel LOL.

 

[Guest]

>Both brands are pretty fast

I disagree; saying both brands are horribly slow would be more correct.. after all, I just finished converting a XVID video to DVD (MP2 video and AC3 sound), and it took my barton well over 8 hours (!) to get a good quality conversion. Now comes the job of muxing the files, adding the subtitles, generating the IFO/VOBs, and burning.. all in all, I can only do 1 movie per day

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