Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D

Chris H wrote on 6/30/2005, 9:50 PM

I'm shopping for a new Dell Dimension 9100. My two options now for a processor are a Pentium 4 3.0 630 with HT or a Pentium D 2.8 820 with dual core technology. Which would give me better performance (render speed) in Vegas 6.0. I've already done a search but have come up with mixed results.

Thanks,

Chris

Comments

StormCrow wrote on 7/1/2005, 4:49 AM

My guess would be the Dual core would yeild faster results but I have nothing to base this on other than others findings. Me myself, my next system will be an AMD Opteron (dual core) X2 system so effectively I'll have 4 procesors.

cynicaltaf wrote on 7/1/2005, 9:20 AM

I agree that the dual-core is likely to be faster. I have recently been carrying out a lot of performance testing using two machines and network rendering - a 3.0GHz P4 HT and dual Xeon 2.8GHz (overclocked to 3.4GHz) water-cooled beast. The clip I tested with was just over 3 mins, but with lots of mixed video/audio, photo clips and Magic Bullet Movie Looks effects.

The P4 alone took 2hrs 43mins to process this clip, while using the dual Xeon and 1 renderer reduced the time to just 1hr 14mins. Interestingly it seems that even a single renderer on a dual CPU machine uses both processors, though not at 100%. Adding a second renderer did achieve 100% on both processors, cutting the time to 53mins. However at this point I encountered a very nasty bug in Windows 2003 server that leads to intermittent Delayed Write errors on network drives, so for now I can only use one renderer.