13 - Performance Mandel FPU | Video transcoding

Mandel FPU test

The Mandel FPU benchmark measures double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x86 or SSE2 instruction set extension.

Now if you come from the Commodore 64 / Amiga era like me, you can probably remember rendering Mandelbrot graphics, and it took a full day to complete an image. Amazing where we are right now as the same set of calculations can be done in seconds & even real-time.

the FPU Mandel test again is HyperThreaded, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core aware.

Again pelase observe the difference between the QX9770 and i7 920 processors. Anyone who smells value .. say "I". Man, and then look at that Q6600 it is almost looking dog-slow there.

Multi-threaded Video Transcoding VC-1 to WMV9

Transcoding is a very popular thing to do on PC's. You take a movie and transcode it from format A to B. Example in this test we transcode a high-definition VC1 movie towards a WMV9 format. Traditionally something the Phenoms were real fast at, yet again the Core i7 CPUs dominate completely.