Athlon XP 2100+: AMD Turns Up The Heat

MP3-Audio-Encoding: Lame MP3

The Lame MP3 Encoder under Windows XP is used to convert a 178 MB sound file from a WAV format to a MPEG-1 Layer 3 format. The diagram shows that the AMD Athlon XP 2100+ even outstrips both Pentium 4 processors at a 533 MHz RDRAM rate (2533 MHz and 2666 MHz). All Pentium 4 CPUs at an FSB clock speed of 133 MHz and 533 MHz Rambus memory that are not yet available on the market were marked with a blue-and-black bar and are there only for reference purposes.

Video-Encoding MPEG-4: Xmpeg 4.2a Und Divx 4.12

RAM performance is an important factor in MPEG-4 encoding, but the AMD Athlon XP 2100+, when equipped with DDR333 modules, is right on the heels of the Pentium 4/2200. On the other hand, though, an Athlon 850 looks literally antiquated with its mere 18 frames per second. Again, all Pentium 4 CPUs at an FSB clock speed of 133 MHz and 533 MHz Rambus memory that are not yet available on the market were marked with a blue-and-black bar and are there only for reference purposes.