Page 8 - Real World Apps

File Encryption & Decompression

Encrypting is becoming a more and more popular task with file sharing. Many companies already have a policy where all emails for instance must be encrypted. This test involves encrypting various kinds of files.

File decompression is a very popular task in todays PC usage; especially files transferred over a network, which are almost always compressed. These tests use the open source Zlib data compression library.

The amount of operations processed during the 20 second run time is calculated for both tests and the metric is measured in Megabytes processed per second.

Again the differential between the Q6600 and the Phenom 9700 is measurable yet in real-world situations hardly noticeable.

WMV Compression & DIVX Decryption

Video Compression - With digital video cameras increasingly gaining popularity, video conversion and editing is becoming a very popular task in home PC usage. This video compression tests measures two different types of video file conversion. In the WMV Video Compression test, a Windows Media format video file is encoded. This test uses the Windows Media Encoder 9. The video source data file used for the encoding is an approximate 1.8 MB sized mpg file with a resolution of 320*240. Video compression is done through Windows Media Encoder to that same resolution, but in the WMV format with a video bitrate of 1000kbps.

It's a bit of mixed bag here, but the Phenom definitely shows potential and is pretty much on par with the Q6600.