Media encoding, KribiBench, Raytracing
The same, to an extent, can be said about WAV-to-MP3 encoding. Notice how the two Northwood-based CPUs, architected with a shorter pipeline, are able to chew through 611MB wave files in a shorter time than their Prescott counterparts. In fact, we'd need a Prescott running at comfortably over 4GHz to match a 3.4GHz Northwood's performance here.
3.8GHz of Prescott power is well-suited for media encoding. It opens up a significant gap on all AMD CPUs and makes the more expensive 3.46GHz Extreme Edition look slow in comparison. Extreme Edition CPUs' performance is highly dependant upon application used.
More good is to be found in KribiBench performance. The 570J just about ties it with the Expensive Edition, um, err, Extreme Edition.
The performance boot is on the AMD foot when it comes to raytracing, though. That's evidenced by a Clawhammer-based Athlon 64 3200+, running at 2GHz, outpacing a processor that's has almost twice the clock speed. You can now see why Intel has shied away from using clock speed as the main performance indicator, replacing it with a numbering system.
