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AMD's Phenom Processor - Beyond Erratum 298
(Author: Michael Schuette, January 1, 2008)

Audio Visual Content Creation and Media Encoding

Video and audio encoding are becoming increasingly important in the world of personal computing. Home-editing of videos and sound recordings are among the popular applications as is just the standard archiving of DVD material. In the case of audio encoding, there is relatively little out there in terms of applications that are multithreaded, meaning that they would take advantage of multiple cores. Or if there are appications like that, they are not free and the generally short conversion times achieved with free download utilities do not provide enough anguish to actually purchase potentially faster, multithreaded applications.For this article we used three applications that at least ran in the 80-85% CPU utilization when encoding audiovisual material, namely DVD-Shrink 3.2.and the latest version of Mainconcept, namely H.264 Encoder.

In the case of DVD-Shrink we compressed John Grisham's "Runaway Jury" from 4,464 MB to 3,323MB, a compression to 59.6% and Mainconcept encoded the same Watermellon.mpg file to an [H.264] High, 1920 x 1080 pixel, 29.97 fps, 48,000Hz 16 bit MPG file.

DVD-Shrink

Encoding time in seconds: lower is better! The Phenom does not show stellar performance but it isn't too bad either.

MainConcept H.264

Encoding time in seconds: lower is better! Despite a handicap in actual core frequency, the Phenom does surprisingly well in MainConcept.

(AMD Phenom 9600 2.3GHz (HD9600WCGDBO))

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