MP3, KribiBench, Raytracing, HDTach
Moving on to WAV encoding. The test is to encode 607MB of WAV files (U2's Pop album, incidentally) into 192KB/s MP3 format using LAME 3.92 with a RazorLAME front-end.
Pure grunt leads the way here.
KribiBench is an easy-to-use benchmark from Adept Development. It's a software (read subsystem) renderer that's capable of rendering amazingly complex scenes. The benchmark can be downloaded from here and features models with 16.7 billion polygons. The test is the rather easier JetShadow model with the realistic setting. Both boards show increasing similarities in performance again. Another P4 benefit, it seems. It's heavily optimised for SS2 technology, apparently.
Realstorm's Raytracing, however, is a devout lover of AMD's architecture. The Athlon 64 3200+ bludgeons both Intel boards with a big performance stick. They're both in close proximity, as expected.
