Transcoding over the CPU or GPU - 3DMark 06 and Vantage

Transcoding over the CPU or GPU

We recently added another benchmark to the test-suite. It's MediaShow Espresso. The fun thing about this video transcoder is that it can utilize the GPU to assist it with the transcending process.  However, you can also solely use the CPU, making this a very interesting benchmark and you can check out behavior of CPU transcoding AND GPU transcoding all in one test.

Above you can find the results of this new test. In this test we transcode a 200 MB AVCHD 1920x1080i media file to a 1280x720P MP4 binary (YouTube format).

We recently introduced this test. As you can see, the GPU is very well suited for this process. Since the software is really multi-core aware, dual-core processors fall behind quad cores quickly. The high clock frequency however saves overall performance making it faster than say a 2nd generation (TLB fixed) Phenom 9950 quad core processor.

3DMark 06 CPU test

Well, everybody loves 3DMark06, and nowadays, it's CPU limited, making it an valid application to check CPU performance. The scores that you see obviously are the CPU test itself, not overall 3DMark06 scores.