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AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 9, 2005 12:02 AM EST
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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


Video Creation/Photo Editing Gaming Performance
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  • Ender17 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    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.

  • RadeonGuy - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    Great Article Anand

    very depthful

  • ashegam - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    I'm having a woodygasm :)

  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    looks very promising

    MIKE

  • potato pc - Sunday, October 20, 2019 - link

    I just looked into this article because my destkop in 2019 on windows 10 has it.

    man its insane how dual cores were powerful at this time.

  • brug69 - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    so crazy that this was 15 years ago, and yall never had a clue that there would ever be 64 core processors today...

  • DARK_BG - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    Hah I was reading this review 15 years ago and with their prices back then I was only dreaming about the 1024kb dual core ones :) Well I took it 3 years later second hand Athlon 64X2 4800+ :D Still working on Asus A8N-E with a ATI HD4850 now used by my grandfather just to read the news :)

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