Premiere Pro CS4 Benchmark

[Steve Kalle]

Stephen: start a new thread and copy our last few comments to get it started.

MOD NOTE: As suggested, moved posts on networking to a new thread:
Network setup for workgroup editing

[Harm Millaard]

Originally Posted by David Dwyer

Cheers Steve,

I'm having slow rendering compared to most other people and I'm wondering if a SSD or even a Matrox CompressedHD card would speed things up.

SSD is the easy option but once the application is open would I see any performance gains?

Your results have been included and from the looks of it, your CPU intensive testing, the MPEG encoding, is the culprit. You AVI results are quite good, but the AMD CPU has trouble keeping up with the faster Intel CPU's. Your disk setup is quite good, hence the good AVI performance. You lose on the render test and the MPEG test, which are largely CPU dependent. You may be able to gain marginally from an SSD, but IMO it would not be a wise investment. If you want to do something about responsiveness and perfomance, you have to look at a different CPU.

[David Dwyer]

Originally Posted by David Dwyer

DavidDwyer, Personal or Computer ID
HP Proliant 115GS, Computer Manufacturer
HP, Computer Model
159.4, secs Total Benchmark Time
7.1, secs AVI Encoding Time
94.3, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
58, secs Rendering Time
AMD, CPU Manufacturer
2.1GHZ, CPU Model
2.1, GHz CPU speed
1, Number of CPU chips
4, Total Number of Cores
8, GB RAM
4.1, APP Version PPBM4 DV
Win 7 64bit, OSVersion
SATA, OS Disk Interface
150, GB OS Disk Capacity
10,000, OS Disk Speed
SATA, Project Disk Interface
400x2 R0, GB Project Disk Capacity
7200, Project Disk Speed
Nvida FX3700, Graphics Board
, Comment


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DavidDwyer, Personal or Computer ID
HP Proliant 115GS, Computer Manufacturer
HP, Computer Model
86, secs Total Benchmark Time
9.2, secs AVI Encoding Time
18.8, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
58, secs Rendering Time
AMD, CPU Manufacturer
2.1GHZ, CPU Model
2.1, GHz CPU speed
1, Number of CPU chips
4, Total Number of Cores
8, GB RAM
4.1, APP Version PPBM4 DV
Win 7 64bit, OSVersion
SATA, OS Disk Interface
150, GB OS Disk Capacity
10,000, OS Disk Speed
SATA, Project Disk Interface
400x2 R0, GB Project Disk Capacity
7200, Project Disk Speed
Nvida FX3700, Graphics Board
, Comment

I reran the test but changed the output disk back to the 10k rpm OS Disk - Improvement!

[Harm Millaard]

David,

What happened with your MPEG2-DVD results? It appears like there is some mistake going on here. 18.8 seconds is in no way a reasonable comparison to you AVI results, nor to the render results. Is there a typo? How could it be that your AVI results are around 6 times slower than the current top score, your MPEG results better by around 50% and your render results are again around 2.5 times slower than the top performance. Something does not sound right here.

[David Dwyer]

Don't think so but I'll rerun it when I get home tonight to double check.