H.264 and WMVHD Decoding test on ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD ATi RS600/SB600 Mainboard Review @OCWORKBENCH

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H.264 and WMVHD Decoding test on ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD ATi RS600/SB600 Mainboard Review
Bluetooth 9 Jul 2007

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The H.264 playback tests

In this section, we take a look at the CPU utilisation playing back FullHD contents. We threw a BluRay title to it encoded in H.264/AVC and a TS in H.264. The latest test is a playback of Step Into Liquid WMVHD clip.

The first real time screen shot shows the CPU utilisation while playing back the main menu. We can see that the CPU utilisation of this BluRay title had a minimum usage of 11.719% and max of 100%. After going through a few rounds of playback, the average CPU utilisation is ~ 58%. That is not too bad for an integrated chipset. The equivalent 690G on AM2 platform took ~ 60%+, a X2 4000+ was used.

The same technique is used to measure this 1080p HD TS. It averages around 28% with a min of 28% and high of 98%.

WMVHD acceleration is of course supported. For those who have a collection of WMVHD titles, you can now enjoy them with lower CPU utilisation and frees up the cycles for your other tasks.

In this case the WMVHD 1080p clip Step into Liquid is put to the test and we found it to be on an average of 17% cpu utilisation.

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