AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 4: Desktop Performance

Video Encoding Performance - Windows Media Encoder 9.0

For our next video encoding test we took Windows Media Encoder 9.0 and encoded the same chapter from the Star Wars Episode I DVD into a 2Mbps VBR WMV file using Media Encoder's built in 2Mbps DVD VBR settings. The time reported is in minutes to encode, lower being better obviously:

Windows Media 9 Encoding Performance Converting DVD to 2Mbps VBR - Lower is Better Intel Pentium 4 3.0C AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz - Barton) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) 8.23 11.65 12.18 14.35 14.35 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17

The situation is a bit more positive for AMD in our Windows Media Encoder 9 test; the Pentium 4 is still untouchable though.