Please convince me to stick to AMD

[JK]

Stacey wrote:
Stacey wrote: KBear wrote: I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. It's SSE2 and yes a P4 is the better platform for video editing. I've tested both personally and a P4 chips with the same rated speed as an AMD renders clips in vegas video twice as fast. Here's some benchmarks (And not toms hardware JK)
For content creation and encoding P4's rock http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=5 http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=13

Notice that the XP2600+ 333($100 retail box) gets a score of 65.9.
What Intel processor (retail box) can I get for $100? A Celeron 2.4 ghz
is $85 for the retail box.I doubt it would even come close to the
XP2600+ 333 even in video encoding or rendering.

For a higher end system, it will be interesting to see how an Opteron 140
based system compares to the higher end P4 systems. The Opteron
and Athlon 64 support SSE2. Perhaps very soon we will have the answer?


In an SSE2 rendering app (like most video rendering apps) the P4 is almost twice as fast http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=15 For general use/games an AMD is the better choice, especially for the money. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=6 People use AMD's for editing but if they have used both they would never choose a single AMD. If you want to try 2 AMD Mp's it might work fine. -- Stacey

[Stacey]

JK wrote:
Stacey wrote: Stacey wrote: KBear wrote:> I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade> my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite> some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the> P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. It's SSE2 and yes a P4 is the better platform for video editing. I've tested both personally and a P4 chips with the same rated speed as an AMD renders clips in vegas video twice as fast. Here's some benchmarks (And not toms hardware JK) For content creation and encoding P4's rock http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=5 http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=13 Notice that the XP2600+ 333($100 retail box) gets a score of 65.9. What Intel processor (retail box) can I get for $100? A Celeron 2.4 ghz is $85 for the retail box.I doubt it would even come close to the XP2600+ 333 even in video encoding or rendering.

Who would be limiting themselves to a $100 processor for doing video work?

For a higher end system, it will be interesting to see how an Opteron 140 based system compares to the higher end P4 systems. The Opteron and Athlon 64 support SSE2. Perhaps very soon we will have the answer?

I'm sure we will, until them it's just conjecture/marketing on your part
that these work well with avalible software

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Stacey