Benchmarks I
Starting off with Pifast. A fast FPU and oodles of bandwidth are what's required for a fast time. Calculation of the constant Pi to 10-million places.
The impressive floating point unit on the XP allows it to comfortably eclipse the P4's time. The EPox is around 3 seconds faster when we run it at 166FSB.
Next we'll turn our attention to MP3 encoding. We're benchmarking by encoding a 610MB custom WAV file (U2's Pop album, incidentally) into 192kb/s MP3 using the LAME 3.92 encoder and Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end.
Largely insensitive to memory speeds, the XP-powered EPoX comfortably outpaces the Intel comparison setup.
You should know the order of benchmarks by now. Next is DVD-to-DivX encoding. DivX4.12 with a 2-pass encoding of Gone in 60 seconds with an 1800kb/s bit rate. An average, once both passes have been run, is calculated when the first VOB is complete.
It's nice to see the increase when simply changing the CPU's FSB from 133 to 166.
Another victory for AMD and EPoX.
