WAV crunching, KribiBench, Raytracing, XviD
Memory bandwidth and latency are lesser factors in WAV crunching. Not that it's possible to visually distinguish between the three cubes' results. For that, we need a nice graph, as above.
KribiBench carries on the theme of the last page. The Zen isn't a performance beast; it's more of an all-rounder.
Realstorm's Raytracing benchmark doesn't show as marked a performance difference as Pifast. Let's remember that both the Shuttle SB75G2 and EPoX Mini Me aren't having to tax memory bandwidth for video's sake. That's one lateral advantage of using a discrete AGP card.
Our encoding test consists of the first vob contained on the Sleepy Hollow DVD. A bitrate of 1433Kbit/s is used. A quality bias is used. The graph is a simple translation of what happens when bandwidth and latency are taken into account.
