Pentium
4 Processor APPLICATION LAUNCHER v2.
Intel Application Launcher v2. is a measurement utility that measures the
application level speed up obtained from the Intel(r) NetBurst(tm) micro-architecture
of the Pentium(r) 4 Processor using three business applications: Pixel Kinetix
MagniTrax 1.02x, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 4.0 and Microsoft Windows
Media Encoder 7.0. It also contains five consumer applications: Ulead Systems
VideoStudio 4.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1 / Ligos LSX-MPEG for Adobe Premiere, Ligos
GoMotion Video Decoder, Rage Software Incoming Forces, and Canon eJay MP3
Plus 1.3*. The utility runs on both Pentium 4 processor-based platforms and
other platforms to enable a comparison of identical configurations.
NaturallySpeaking* Preferred 4.0
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 4.0 is a continuous speech recognition
application that converts speech into text. The script in the performance
measurement utility CD plays a pre-recorded wave file (a recorded speech)
using Dragon's PlayWave utility. The utility feeds this wave file into NaturallySpeaking
which then converts the wave file to text. The time taken to load application
and wave file and complete the conversion is used as the performance metric.
The speech recognition program created by Dragon Systems is composed of several
pieces including the underlying engine, the user interface, and several middle
layers with language models, rules, and acoustic models.
| Naturally
Speaking Prefered (Time/s) |
Windows
98 SE |
Windows
200 PRO |
|
|
|
| Intel
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
132
|
136
|
| Intel
Pentium III 1.0 GHz |
152
|
157
|
MagniTrax
1.02x
MagniTrax is a PC-based image viewer, designed to enhance desktop viewing
capability into a spacious 3D environment. It can be used as an image viewer
for conventional 2D images (jpegs, bmps, gifs, etc...) from digital cameras,
scanned images, images swept off the web, and real-life 3D HoloGrafix(tm)
images. MagniTrax utilizes patented face tracking technology, using a low
cost USB video camera to track the user's head in real time. The application
has been Pentium 4 processor optimized.
| Magnitrax
1.02 (Time/s) |
Windows
98 SE |
Windows
200 PRO |
|
|
|
| Intel
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
29
|
72
|
| Intel
Pentium III 1.0 GHz |
35
|
34
|
The performance measurement utility
measures the time spent tracking head movements from a previously recorded
AVI clip while MagniTrax composites a 3D spatial image of a shopping catalog.
For the purpose of this benchmark, the video processing module does not drop
any frames from the AVI clip and waits for Magnitrax to finish the rendering.
Premiere*
5.1 w/ Ligos LSX-MPEG* for Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere 5.1 is a video-editing program. Using Premiere, a consumer
can easily combine a variety of video and audio sources with many effects
such as audio filtering and video transitions. The final video can be output
to several different audio and video formats. The Ligos LSX plug-in allows
the user to save videos using Ligos's MPEG2 compression format.
| Adobe
Premiere 5.1 (Time/s) |
Windows
98 SE |
Windows
200 PRO |
|
|
|
| Intel
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
58
|
56
|
| Intel
Pentium III 1.0 GHz |
91
|
75
|
The performance measurement utility starts Premiere, loads
an AVI source file, changes the video settings, encodes a 320x240 AVI clip
from an Intel MMX(TM) technology advertisement and measures the elapsed time.
The video is encoded with the following settings: file type MPEG2, 640x480
resolution, variable bit rate video, 384k audio bit rate, motion estimation
16, and I, B and P frames included. The utility uses a beta version of lsxprem
DLL v1.3.0.10, which is optimized for the Pentium 4 processor.
