Benchmark Setup
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| Hardware Setup | |
|---|---|
| Pentium 4 Platform | |
| Motherboard | Asus P4T motherboardIntel 850 Chipset |
| Processor | Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
| Memory | 256 MB Samsung 45ns RDRAM, 2x 128 RIMMs |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB Reference Card |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 Professional SP1 |
| Pentium III Platform | |
| Motherboard | Asus CUSL2 motherboardIntel 815 Chipset |
| Processor | Pentium III 1 GHz |
| Memory | 256 MB Wichman WorkX PC133 SDRAM, 2x 128 MB DIMMs, 2-2-2-5/7 |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB Reference Card |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 Professional SP1 |
| AMD Athlon Platform | |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-7DX Rev. 1.3 motherboardAMD 760 Chipset w/ VIA Southbridge |
| Processor | Athlon 1.2 GHz, 133 MHz Bus |
| Memory | 256 MB Infineon DDR-SDRAM, 1x 256 MB DIMM, CL 2 |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB Reference Card |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 Professional SP1 |
Due to the urgency of this article I refrained from running the tests at several different clock speeds of Pentium 4 for the time being. The Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz should suffice to make the point. I also left out Athlon 1200 on KT133 for the same reason.
The file to be encoded to MPEG4 is a piece of 'Romeo Must Die' in the DVD-typical 'VOB'-format. I used the DivX ;-) codec rev. 3.11.
