Audio, video encoding

Even though the Pentium M 780 is slower than any Pentium 4 at encoding audio into the MP3 format, it is faster than any single-core Athlon 64.

The Pentium 4 remains the best processor for video encoding, while the Pentium M fails in tasks of that type. The low performance of the FPU, the lack of Hyper-Threading and SSE3 all lead to the Pentium M being very poor in this test.

Well, it’s not so bad for the Pentium M 780 when we use certain codecs, like XviD in this example.