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Speed Benchmarks

January 2000:
From: "Peter Olufsen"  - po@dsinet.dk

Processor:     600Mhz pentium III
Platform:      Win-98
WAV file:      262sec. song (45.2Mb).

 CBR, high quality (-h / qual 9), full freq. range (-k)

                   Mp3Enc31    BladeEnc     Lame3.60
192 (-ms)            586         166          60
128 (-mj)            795         182          90
November  1999:
From: "Ethan Yeo" - ewyeo@bigfoot.com

Processor:    AMD Athlon 650
Platform:     Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
WAV File:     Track 1 from "The Prince of Egypt" OST

Encoder          Timing*       Size
-----------------------------------------------
Track1.wav       304 sec  53,712,668 Bytes
BladeEnc 0.82    153 sec   4,871,604 Bytes   bladeenc track1.wav track1.mp3
LAME 3.51         80 sec   4,872,440 Bytes   lame -h track1.wav track1.mp3
LAME 3.57beta     75 sec   4,872,022 Bytes   lame -h track1.wav track1.mp3

LAME 3.51         70 sec   4,872,440 Bytes   lame -h -m s track1.wav track1.mp3
LAME 3.57beta     64 sec   4,872,022 Bytes   lame -h -m s track1.wav track1.mp3
July 1999:  LAME 3.13 timings from  Alex Nemirovsky - alexn@transport.com


WAV file:   284 seconds


266 Mhz Pentium, 66 Mhz FSB, 512 KB cache at 66Mhz   encoding time:       295 sec,
233 Mhz Pentium II/ 66Mhz FSB, 512 KB cache at 115Mhz encoding time:      234 sec,
200 Mhz Pentium Pro/66Mhz FSB, 256KB cache at 200Mhz encoding time:       257 sec,
300 Mhz Celeron 300A/66Mhz FSB, 128KB cache at 300Mhz encoding time:      180 sec,
300 Mhz Pentium II/66Mhz FSB, 512 KB cache at 150Mhz, encoding time:      176 sec,