How much faster is 1.33 Athlon vs Athlon 800?

[mwilcko]

I do video editing for a living and mainly use Boris FX/ Boris Red which rendering times heavily depend on FPU performance.

Currently Im using an classic Athlon 800 with pc100 memory.

Would I see a huge benefit by going to the Athlon 1.33 with the faster 266 memory?

The reason I ask is, for example a 1 gigahertz chip is not exactly twice as fast as a 500mhz chip... memory, mb chipset. etc... also affect performance.

Thanks!

 

[Davegod75]

yes i would say you'd see a big benefit.

 

[Superdoopercooper]

You should see a big improvement... With large video transfers to/from RAM.... the PC266 RAM and the T-bird would speed you up.

Theoretically, the processor would give you 1.33G/800Mh = 66% speed increase... and memory bandwidth going from true PC100 (100MHz) to PC-133 at 2 accesses per clock for 266MHz effectively (or PC266 ram...) = 266/100 = 266% increase in bandwidth.

Will you see this great of an increase... probably not, but I bet you'll see a speed up of about 25-50%. A fast hard drive would help to... for doing video. Not to mention... if you get a 1.33 processor, you're likely to be able to squeeze at least 1.4G or more out of it.

Hope this helps somewhat.

 

[CTweak]

Yep, for most apps the increase would not be huge (though it would be noticable), but for video editing, I'd jump all over that upgrade.

 

[nortexoid]

it probably won't be as big as most of these people think...

depends what u're doing fo course...video editing - hmmm...what software are u using? - the standar adobe suite?
u won't notice anything jaw braeking...or breath taking...

personally, i'd hold out slihtly longer till the palamino comes out - and see how it makes use of DDR as well..u might as well get something with a significant performance increase if u want to upgrade at all..

 

[GT1999]

I'd have to take a guess on this one..

but I'd say about 533MHz faster.

If you've got cash to burn - go ferit..

 

[MrHelpful]

Geekish - Wrong. 533.333333333_ MHz faster.

 

[Muerto]

You'd see a big improvement. Not only would it be 533.33333333 MHz faster (just for you MrHelpful ) but the L2 cache is integrated on the processor die so it's going a lot faster as well. DDR memory would come in handy as well as bandwidth plays a big role in video editing. If you can afford it I'd also recommend going with a RAID 0 setup for faster disk performance (if you don't already have it).