AMD Athlon™ MP Processor Boosts Performance of Pinnacle Systems Leading Video Editing Software

SHTUNOT wrote on 12/18/2001, 6:44 PM
Go to this link to see that Pinnacle has optimized its software to be used with the new AMD XP chip...http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~13298,00.html . Does Vegas Video take full advantage of any of these processors;AMD,XP/Pentium 4...The article is on dual amds being used for the video operations...If not will we see an update to take more of an advantage of this new technology. Later.

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 12/18/2001, 10:46 PM
Hmmmmm....seems like Vegas supports Windows XP, and AMD XP processors are enhanced to perform optimally on Windows XP. So I'm not sure what you're point is? Sounds like Pinnacle is selling you a bag of B.S. and you're buying it by the mouth fulls. I guess this might go back to, what came first..the chicken or the egg?
SHTUNOT wrote on 12/19/2001, 1:12 AM
Sounds like Pinnacle is selling you a bag of B.S. and you're buying it by the mouth fulls.

Dude...I read a post recently where people saw that with certain types of formats say windows media or something other than avi's that their system was fully being utilized[rendering wise 100%]. Then when it came down to rendering avi's...to like 50% only. Not sure what the outcome of the post was but then I ran into this article on the AMD site. Was just trying to see if it held water or not. If I "bought it by the mouth fulls" then I wouldn't be asking now would I? By that remark redroll if I ever make a comment in the future please ignore it. Just trying to get my facts straight...Anyway so far no further bugs to report...we'll be sending you back to your regularly scheduled programming...Later.
biff_henderson wrote on 12/19/2001, 2:30 AM
This really is a good question. Especially considering the fact that the P4 will only vastly out perform the competition when running on an application that supports the P4 architecture.

I emailed SF, got a canned no-answer response, then asked to speak to a manager. They didn't seem to have any idea what I was talking about. I hope that the engineering department didn't tell them to play stupid. This could be a huge factor when competing with the big boys, and could put the VST question to rest when the MHz start to approach 2.5-3.

SF, any answers?

Biff
sreams wrote on 12/19/2001, 3:43 AM
"This really is a good question. Especially considering the fact that the P4 will only vastly out perform the competition when running on an application that supports the P4 architecture."

This statement is absolutely false. Without optimizations, a P4 falls well behind the competition. When the P4 is the -only- CPU to be favored, it can outperform the competition a little bit. When all CPUs receive optimizations, the P4 falls behind again. The cases where the P4 "vastly outperforms" the competition are very, very rare.

-S