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Processor benchmarks: Intel versus AMD

Kai Schmerer ZDNet Germany

Published: 24 Aug 2004

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Video performance: TMPEG / PowerDVD Copy

Compared with Video Studio 8, an editing/processing suite, TMPEG Enc 3.0 Express is essentially limited to video conversion and encoding.

TMPEG Enc 3.0 Express is one of the few applications to support all of the Pentium 4's special features. Besides SSE2 and HyperThreading, it also supports the 13 new instructions introduced with the Prescott core. As a result, the Athlon 64 is beaten hands-down: AMD's chips cannot keep up with the competition in this test, lagging behind by up to 36 per cent.

In the test with the DVD copy software PowerDVD Copy, the picture changes: here, the Athlon 64 is between three and six per cent faster than the Pentium 4.


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  1. Folks: The slide and the text don't match on all o... Larry Karnis
  2. Why do the Charts not match the review. I se... Anonymous
  3. Text and Graphics do match, you need to look... Nic
  4. This benchmark clearly shows that a chip... Anonymous
  5. The text and the charts are OK, the confusion... Jorge Espejo
  6. Folks: A lower score is BETTER on SOME of the... anon y. mous
  7. *" During my research in “silicon perfor... Ziggurat
  8. Great review! I appreciate the input as do others... Gene Dolan
  9. Good review, although I'd like to see a Visual C++... Tom Mason
  10. Strange how you hide the benchmarks from view unle... Andy Woudstra
  11. Whose computers are not needing to multitask all t... Anonymous
  12. Multi-tasking means USING multiple programs a... Anonymous
  13. >Whose computers are not needing to multitask... Anonymous
  14. The multi-tasking test is intersting to... Martin Hahnheuser
  15. FX53 is the fastest AMD workstation cpu. Anonymous
  16. Duo and Dual core offerings benefit greatly f... Pop3
  17. This review is clearly flawed. Chips that are cloc... Anonymous
  18. If you overclock a cpu, you may create imbala... Morten Bjoernsvik
  19. Just to confirm: some of the test metrics are 'big... Charles McLellan
  20. Hi, I have a AMD Athlon 2400 (2.0)ghz XP processor... Harjas
  21. NOTHING! depreciates faster than a computer.... Me
  22. lol, @Harjas: "Hi, I have a AMD Athlon 2400 (... Anonymous
  23. lol, @Harjas: "Hi, I have a AMD Athlon 2... Anonymous
  24. Harjas, it's nattural that the price of your... Farcau Pavel
  25. Although windows is not 64 bit, you can run 64bit... Morten Bjoernsvik
  26. how do those compare with the Apple G5? Anonymous
  27. AMD's Athlon 64 CPUs clearly outperform Intel's Pe... Ashwin V
  28. The article says the Prescott wins on apps that ar... Lefty
  29. Hi Folks: Just an observation here which is, that... john thomas
  30. There isn't a clear winner?? Bawhahaha...take a lo... Anonymous
  31. The time is giving us a very difficult decision in... Anonymous
  32. The Athlon chips' 64-bit capability is curren... Anonymous
  33. True, linux tests should be documented i... blopnuts
  34. does an amd 3000+ makes more noice while running j... Anonymous
  35. somebody ask if an amd 3000+ make more noise... Farcau Pavel
  36. Which one cost less? AMD Which one uses less powe... Amd and Intel owner
  37. This is a little off the topic but what is th... Anonymous
  38. I own two computers. An Intel Pentium 4: 3E GHz (P... Brandon Craig
  39. Hi Branden. As with A64's the raw cpu MHz of... Martin Hahnheuser
  40. Friends, During my research in... John
  41. for me, im conscious with the parts that i bought... peter lo
  42. Hi Peter A lot of folks seem to think that FS... Martin Hahnheuser
  43. Apply your techonogy to end suffering. Heck what b... centroweb
  44. "I own two computers. An Intel Pentium 4: 3E... Occulose
  45. to: Brandon Craig Pentium 4: 3E GHz (Pre... Marcus Aurelius
  46. Charts and text do match up. Read the Better/Wors... Jenny Wolfe
  47. Whats up with the cheesy memory in the Intel syste... Jeff M
  48. Further benchmarks t0minit

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