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AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
Date: May 9th, 2005
Topic: CPU & Chipset
Manufacturer: AMD
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi
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Audio/Video Encoding

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DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK

Armed with the DivX 5.2.1 and the AutoGK, we took all of the processors to task at encoding a chapter out of "Pirates of the Caribbean". We set AutoGK to give us 75% quality of the original DVD rip and did not encode audio.

DivX 5.2.1 Encoding Performance

The Athlon 64 X2 finally gives AMD the performance that it needs when it comes to DivX encoding. Unfortunately, it is at a significantly increased cost.

XviD with AutoGK

Another very popular codec is the XviD codec, and thus, we measured encoding performance using it instead of DivX for this next test. The rest of the variables remained the same as the DivX test.

XviD Encoding Performance

Windows Media Encoder 9

To finish up our look at Video Encoding performance, we have two tests, both involving Windows Media Encoder 9. The first test is WorldBench 5's WMV9 encoding test.

Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0

But once we crank up the requirements a bit and start doing some HD quality encoding under WMV9, the situation changes dramatically:

Windows Media Video 9 HD Encoding Performance


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No Subject by nourdmrolNMT1, 1737 days ago
looks very promising

MIKE

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No Subject by ashegam, 1737 days ago
I'm having a woodygasm :)

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No Subject by RadeonGuy, 1737 days ago
Great Article Anand

very depthful

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No Subject by Ender17, 1737 days ago
Would have been nice to have a 2.8GHz Pentium D so you could get a sense of how the Intel chips scaled with an increase in the clock speed.

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No Subject by Brian23, 1737 days ago
While I'm very impressed by this IC, I hate paper launches.

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No Subject by Capt Caveman, 1737 days ago
I hate that we have to wait til Q3/Q4.

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No Subject by anandtechrocks, 1737 days ago
Amazing preformance, but half a G is really pushing it for a processor...

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No Subject by Swaid, 1737 days ago
I hate the price of admission!

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No Subject by Aenslead, 1737 days ago
Is it just me, or did AMD win in EVERY benchmark program? Simply amazing.

Still, it surprises me to see intel push ahead on multitasking by a tad.

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No Subject by reactor, 1737 days ago
good article, cant wait to see how yonah stacks up so i can make a decision on what to get.

btw the graphs all say intel pentium D 840, instead of 640.

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