In how much time can I render a 40GB video with the i5-4200U (or a similar processor)

[dandoro]

I have a 40 GB AVCHD video file. In how much time should I render the final file using a i5-4200U or a similar processor, and a 4GB RAM memory?

 

[digitaldoc]

This is a guesstimate, but around 3 hours.

 

[dandoro]

There would be any difference if I would use a 8GB RAM memory instead of the 4GB?

 

[digitaldoc]

I would suggest more ram, but the time will not decrease by a lot.

 

[dandoro]

And a better processor such as i7-3610QM, would cut that time nearly in half, right?

 

[digitaldoc]

Not quite half, but probably a third.

 

[dandoro]

I checked now, and the i5-4200u has a 3246 score and the i7-3610 has a 7674 score in passmark cpu benchmark ranking, so, isn't the i7 at least twice better than the i5? So why shouldn't the rendering time cut in at least half?

 

[digitaldoc]

The i7 will be faster, but Passmark is a synthetic benchmark, and I would not expect it to be twice as fast on a real world CPU intensive task such as a video edit. The quad cores of the i7 do help, but never twice as much.

I did a search to confirm, but there are not video benchmarks available between the processors that would make this an easier comparison.

 

[The Original Ralph]

with my i7-4790 (locked, not a K), 16gb 1600 DDR3 ram & a Asus Geoforce 750 Ti w/2gb DDR3, i just rendered a 34GB UDF file to mp4-H264 in about 1 hour 14 minutes using Handbrake at highest quality (slowest) settings.

if that helps

 

[digitaldoc]

with my i7-4790 (locked, not a K), 16gb 1600 ram & a Asus Geoforce 750 Ti w/2gb DDR3, i rendered a 34GB UDF file to mp4-H264 in about 1 hour 14 minutes using Handbrake at highest quality (slowest) settings.

if that helps

That fits with what I was thinking. The desktop parts always work better for these CPU intensive tasks.