Core 2 Duo: Effects Of Memory Timings

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Xvid Encoding:

For our first multitasking scenario, we decided to fire up our Xvid Encoding benchmark in the background, while processing the folder of photographs from our Photoshop Elements 4.0 test. The time quoted is the time taken to finish auto-fixing the photographs while the Xvid Encode test is running in the background.

As with our Photoshop Elements 4.0 benchmark, there were some small differences between the three tested memory timings. However, the performance characteristics changed a little on the Core 2 Duo E6600 chip. Performance differences between memory timings on the E6400 chip didn't change much, though.

Photoshop Elements 4.0 with Audio Encoding:

The second test was similar to the first, in that Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 was our foreground task. However, this time we loaded our LAME MT audio encoding benchmark in the background. We have displayed the time for the Photoshop Elements test to be completed.

For obvious reasons, encoding multiple WAV files to MP3 requires more memory accessing than a single large video encode. The differences were quite large on the Core 2 Duo E6600, and interestingly quite the opposite was true on the Core 2 Duo E6400 - performance differences were very small.