Intel SkullTrail Preview – Dual Core 2 Extreme QX9775 Processors

Sony Vegas 8.0b

The Vegas Pro collection combines Vegas Pro 8, DVD Architect Pro 4.5, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. These tools let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs. Vegas Pro software also supports 24p, HD and HDV editing, which is what we are going to look at in this benchmark.

The Sony Vegas 8.0b workload that we are using takes a series of short movie and audio files and creates a single video that incorporated special effects and transitions. It uses a MainConcept HDV encoding profile to render the 24p widescreen video clip at a resolution of 1440x1080x32.

Benchmark Results: Running our custom Sony Vegas 8.0b benchmark showed just how well the Skulltrail test system does against the leading quad-core processors from Intel. The Intel QX9770 proved to be 8% faster than the QX6850, but that was nothing as the pair of Intel Core 2 QX9775 Processors was 32% quicker!