AMD's Athlon XP 3000+: Barton cuts it close

Video Encoding Performance - Quicktime 6.0 Professional

Our final encoding test takes the same source file and encodes it to a MPEG-4 Quicktime file for streaming over the Internet. We used the Normal MPEG-4 settings for the conversion, and the time was recorded in minutes (lower being better).

Quicktime 6.0 Pro Encoding Performance Converting DVD to MPEG-4 Internet Stream - Lower is Better Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 2.70 2.82 2.93 2.95 3.02 3.08 3.08 3.10 3.25 3.25 3.30 3.40 3.52 3.57 3.63 3.72 3.73 3.95 3.95 4.05 4.13 4.30 4.42 4.67 4.93 6.00 6.32 6.62 7.15 7.53 7.78 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9

The performance gap narrows between the Pentium 4 3.06 and Barton, but the favor still goes to the Pentium 4 here.