How much quicker than G5?

I've currently got a iMac G5 2GHz machine with 1GB RAM, and running 10.4.11.
I've started to encode some Video_TS files and am surprised at how long it takes.
How much quicker/faster could I expect the midrange Intel iMac to be? Rough idea - are they, generally speaking twice as fast, 4x..?
Would be good to know if the process I'm going through is going to be cut from 4 hours to 2 hours, 1 hour or 40 minutes.
I appreciate that to answer this in any great detail you'll probably need to know all the details of this specific current task, but as I may well be carrying out other processor demanding jobs in the future I'm just after a rough guide. Kinda wanna know what £1000+ will actually get me (other than a much nicer looking iMac with Front Row, iSight etc)
Thanks

Encoding speed depends upon the processor.
I use a Mac Pro 2006 Xeon a 2 hour video will take about 65 minutes.
I also use a powerbook G4 , a 2 hour video takes about 15 hours.
I also use an Imac C2D a 2 hour video about 2.5 hours.
You could opt for the El Gato USB hardware encoder. Costs around $75.00 to $99.00 Do some research on it and I'm not sure about USB 1.1 or if your G5 has USB 2.0 This would greatly effect speed. I would think that the El Gato would bring you in around 2.5 hours (just guessing) I don't use it. You also need to research the resolution the device would bring to your encodes.

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