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CPU History Tour (1999 - 2001)

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Second part of the CPU benchmark project. This time starting with early Pentium III and Athlon Classic and following the CPU development up to the end of 2001 when Pentium III-S, Pentium 4 and Athlon XP were the top.




Ulead Video Studio 8

MPEG2 encoding to DivX 6.8. Using default encoder settings. Enhanced multiprocessing enabled on dual CPU machines. Source video: 6m:36s, resolution 720x576, 25 fps, 6347 kb/s.


Ulead Video Studio 8 – MPEG-2 -> DivX 6.8 [s] (Lower is Better)


2 × Athlon XP 1600+
836.8
Pentium 4 1.5 (RDRAM)
950.4
Pentium 4 1.5 (DDR)
974.9
Pentium 4 1.3
1 062.7
2 × Duron 1000
1 118.7
Pentium 4 1.5 (SDR)
1 136.7
2 × Pentium III Xeon 1000
1 168.9
Pentium III-S 1400
1 179.5
Duron 1000 (SDR)
1 420.4
Athlon XP 1600+
1 424.1
Pentium III 1000EB
1 501.0
2 × Pentium III 700
1 530.0
Celeron 1300
1 572.6
Pentium III 866
1 659.4
Athlon 1400 (SDR)
1 821.7
Duron 1000 (DDR)
1 894.7
Pentium III 700
1 989.6
Celeron 533A @ 800
2 027.6
Athlon 1400 (DDR)
2 067.5
Pentium III 600EB
2 291.4
Athlon 1000
2 347.6
Duron 950
2 363.7
Celeron 700
2 430.9
Athlon 1000 (PC 100)
2 483.4
Duron 800
2 656.2
Athlon 900
2 689.2
Pentium III 500
2 799.3
Celeron 533A
2 839.3
Athlon 800
2 907.7
Athlon 700 (Thunderbird)
3 066.8
Athlon 700
3 071.5
Athlon 600
3 552.7
Celeron 533
6 327.5
C3 800A
6 885.0
Pentium II 450
7 020.2
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MOV encoding to MPEG2. Using PAL DVD preset. Source video: 2m:45s, resolution 640x480, 30 fps, 11.1 Mb/s.

Ulead Video Studio 8 – MOV -> MPEG-2 [s] (Lower is Better)


2 × Athlon XP 1600+
995.4
Pentium III-S 1400
1 090.1
Pentium 4 1.5 (RDRAM)
1 095.7
Pentium 4 1.5 (DDR)
1 103.2
Athlon XP 1600+
1 152.0
Athlon 1400 (SDR)
1 169.8
Athlon 1400 (DDR)
1 235.2
Pentium 4 1.3
1 249.4
Pentium 4 1.5 (SDR)
1 290.8
Celeron 1300
1 373.3
Duron 1000 (SDR)
1 420.8
2 × Duron 1000
1 436.8
Pentium III 1000EB
1 471.4
2 × Pentium III Xeon 1000
1 485.8
Athlon 1000
1 487.2
Athlon 1000 (PC 100)
1 570.5
Duron 950
1 600.2
Duron 1000 (DDR)
1 618.3
Pentium III 866
1 635.2
Athlon 900
1 758.1
Duron 800
1 798.8
Athlon 800
1 917.5
Celeron 533A @ 800
1 995.2
Pentium III 700
2 016.2
2 × Pentium III 700
2 018.8
Athlon 700
2 029.5
Athlon 700 (Thunderbird)
2 108.7
Pentium III 600EB
2 200.9
Athlon 600
2 324.1
Celeron 700
2 389.4
Pentium III 500
2 800.2
Celeron 533A
3 209.5
Celeron 533
4 164.5
C3 800A
4 434.0
Pentium II 450
4 536.4
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CDex 1.51

Conversion of 13 WAV files to MP3 (total length 36m:37s). CDex utilizes the Lame encoder, used settings: high quality (q=2), 192 kb/s.


CDex 1.51 – WAV -> MP3 [s] (Lower is Better)


Pentium III-S 1400
179.2
2 × Athlon XP 1600+
193.0
Athlon XP 1600+
196.5
Athlon 1400 (SDR)
196.8
Athlon 1400 (DDR)
197.2
Celeron 1300
209.2
Pentium 4 1.5 (RDRAM)
232.9
Pentium 4 1.5 (DDR)
234.3
Pentium 4 1.5 (SDR)
243.5
2 × Pentium III Xeon 1000
263.5
Pentium 4 1.3
268.0
Pentium III 1000EB
272.3
Athlon 1000
280.0
Athlon 1000 (PC 100)
283.9
2 × Duron 1000
294.7
Duron 1000 (DDR)
297.0
Duron 1000 (SDR)
301.5
Pentium III 866
313.0
Athlon 900
320.4
Duron 950
324.0
Athlon 800
355.7
Duron 800
375.0
2 × Pentium III 700
379.1
Celeron 533A @ 800
384.3
Pentium III 700
391.8
Athlon 700 (Thunderbird)
394.9
Athlon 700
403.5
Celeron 700
449.1
Pentium III 600EB
449.9
Athlon 600
468.1
Pentium III 500
564.8
Celeron 533
573.3
Celeron 533A
580.5
Pentium II 450
631.1
C3 800A
1 187.0
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FreeRIP MP3 Converter 4.5.2

Conversion of 13 WAV files to FLAC (total length 36m:37s). Using default application settings.


FreeRIP MP3 Converter – WAV -> FLAC [s] (Lower is Betterí)


Athlon XP 1600+
57.7
Pentium 4 1.5 (DDR)
63.0
2 × Athlon XP 1600+
68.9
Pentium 4 1.5 (RDRAM)
69.0
Pentium 4 1.3
69.4
Pentium III-S 1400
70.3
Athlon 1400 (SDR)
70.6
Pentium 4 1.5 (SDR)
72.2
Duron 1000 (DDR)
74.7
Duron 1000 (SDR)
84.5
Athlon 1000
86.7
2 × Duron 1000
88.4
Celeron 1300
89.2
2 × Pentium III Xeon 1000
90.1
Pentium III 866
90.2
Pentium III 1000EB
90.6
Duron 950
91.0
Athlon 1000 (PC 100)
92.1
Athlon 900
92.7
Athlon 800
96.0
Duron 800
106.5
Athlon 700
109.7
2 × Pentium III 700
110.5
Pentium III 700
113.4
Athlon 700 (Thunderbird)
115.4
Celeron 533A @ 800
120.9
Athlon 600
121.1
Pentium III 600EB
121.2
Celeron 700
145.8
Pentium III 500
150.4
Celeron 533A
169.1
Celeron 533
180.4
Pentium II 450
183.1
C3 800A
231.0
Athlon 1400 (DDR)
0.0
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Summary – multimedia encoding [%]


2 × Athlon XP 1600+
94.15
Pentium III-S 1400
86.08
Pentium 4 1.5 (DDR)
86.03
Pentium 4 1.5 (RDRAM)
84.86
Athlon XP 1600+
84.09
Pentium 4 1.3
77.10
Pentium 4 1.5 (SDR)
76.06
Athlon 1400 (SDR)
75.95
Celeron 1300
69.01
2 × Pentium III Xeon 1000
67.66
2 × Duron 1000
67.54
Duron 1000 (SDR)
64.17
Pentium III 1000EB
63.22
Duron 1000 (DDR)
60.81
Athlon 1000
58.28
Pentium III 866
58.13
Athlon 1000 (PC 100)
55.71
Duron 950
54.08
Athlon 1400 (DDR)
52.98
Athlon 900
51.48
2 × Pentium III 700
50.87
Athlon 800
47.79
Duron 800
47.20
Pentium III 700
47.01
Celeron 533A @ 800
46.38
Athlon 700
43.32
Athlon 700 (Thunderbird)
42.47
Pentium III 600EB
42.30
Celeron 700
38.89
Athlon 600
38.08
Pentium III 500
33.88
Celeron 533A
31.37
Celeron 533
25.09
Pentium II 450
23.44
C3 800A
18.67
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