Does Conroe score VERY LOW in audio/video encoding benchmarks?!

[Dance123]

Hi,

Tomshardware review says the Conroe is great and all, however please check out the benchmarks over here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/...2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/page17.html

Am I seeing it correctly that in the Lame MP3 (audio encoding) benchmark, Conroe is scoring ALOT less fps then X2 and Pentium D?! Same with Divx (video encoding) benchmark?

Also, why do they use fps (= frames per second) in mp3/Divx benchmarks?

Please check out those benchmarks and explain them cause I don't understand them! Thanks!!

 

[NoStateofMind]

Lower times = faster performance correct?

 

[Aluvus]

I believe they just labeled the y-axis incorrectly.

 

[Dance123]

How do you mean cause I still don't get it.. in some benchmarks it scores highest, in the others I mentioned very low?! What's up with that?!

 

[Dance123]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Lower times = faster performance correct?

But doesn't "FPS" mean frames per second and shouldn't that be as high as possible?! They don't mention time as far as I see in the mp3 and divx benchmarks?

Am I seeing things wrong or what???

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yep several of the graphs are labeled wrong. They all have FPS as the Y axis, and several should have minutes. All of them except serious sam should be labeled minutes

 

[NoStateofMind]

They labled "FPS" when it should be labled "Min/Sec". Its not going to be 9 FPS. Look at the times, 2:33 is not 2 1/2 FPS...its 2 minutes and 33 sec.

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

its THG

 

[Dance123]

Check out Anandtech benchmarks over here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=12

Why are the first 2 benchmarks higher.. I suppose that's not time so what is it then?

 

[aldamon]

Dance123, haven't you figured out by now that Conroe is good at everything? Hehe.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: Dance123
Check out Anandtech benchmarks over here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=12

Why are the first 2 benchmarks higher.. I suppose that's not time so what is it then?

I'm going to guess it's the amount of work done in that test. I'm sure its a timed test to see which one does more work in a certain time frame.

 

[broly8877]

Encoding is probably Conroe's biggest strength.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: broly8877
Encoding is probably Conroe's biggest strength.

That's been Intels strongest attribute as long as I can remember.

 

[broly8877]

indeed.

 

[dandragonrage]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
That's been Intels strongest attribute as long as I can remember.

Not with Yonah