Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance

Audio/Video Encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox 7.10

DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK

Armed with the DivX 5.2.1 and the AutoGK front end for Gordian Knot, 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.

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.

Windows Media Encoder 9

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

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