Anyone know about PIII vs T-bird performance in MS Pro 6.0?

[Hulk]

I'm currently using a PIII850 and was wondering how a 1100 T-bird would do in MS Pro 6.0.

I know that MS Pro is optimized for SSE but the T-bird does have the advantage in clockspeed and fpu pipelines. These chips are about the same price. If someone has a T-bird and MS Pro maybe we could set up identical rendering tests for each system.

Actually we could test a lot of systems.
Maybe we could put together a rendering test people could download. I would be willing to donate 50mb of web space.

I would even put the timeline together. Only thing is I'm kind of new to MS Pro and wouldn't know how to structure a good workout for the computer. My projects are still kind of basic.

The only reason I upgraded my system was for video editing. My old 450a was plenty fast enough for everything else. Seems like benchmarks should really focus on video editing since that's the only thing that most people wait on their computer for. Besides autocad or FEA programs, ie serious engineering apps.

[This_Idiot]

Hi Hulk,

Not a bad idea ! There's plenty of webspace here at the site ( www.desktopvideoworld.com )(courtesy of the MURC and GA), free of charge. We could also use the current AVI Showcase to hold a test project and clips for folks to download and test on their own machines.

With the exception of using soft codecs for capture, the only time that CPU speed really matters is during rendering, especially rendering transitions. Mebbe our tame betatesters could come up with some ideas of specific effects that would give some meaningfult results.

Cheers

Chris

[andrewh]

what about the tests that CV uses: 10 second radial wipe etc.

It would be nice to have a standardised set of tests so we can genuinely compare results. I am in process of building a system with A7v, Athlon 900, G450, Pyro and would be willing to try the tests.

Andrew

[Jerry Jones]

I'm waiting for the prices to drop a little more before I upgrade to a 1Ghz.

I'm undecided on the Athlon vs. PIII question, although I don't like the mpEGG news that suggests Athlons won't work with that encoder.

It might be worthwhile to mention DV Magazine published an article in the October issue wherein they compared high end workstation computers.

I was fascinated to read about a little Polywell AMD workstation with a 1Ghz Athlon processor and 256 mb of ram. It did very well in the Premiere and After Effects tests.

See link:
http://www.dv.com/magazine/2000/1000/seal1000.html