Tyan's Tiger MP: Affordable Multiprocessing

MPEG-4 Encoding Performance

Today's workstations aren't all about designing things in CAD windows; the CPU intensive process of encoding video using the very popular MPEG-4 codecs available has become a hobby for many. 

The latest build of the FlasK MPEG encoder is multithreaded and unlike previous builds, it actually makes use of both processors in a 2P system. 

Two Durons can encode 68% faster than a single Duron, not bad at all.  Throw more cache at the problem and the performance improves somewhat as well.  The Athlon MP is able to encode and interlace video in real time at over 60 fps.

3D Rendering Performance

The Cinema 4D benchmark is indicative of what we've seen in other 3D rendering tests; working data set sizes are not large enough to give the Athlon a major advantage over the Duron, but going to a 2P setup definitely helps.