Scalability to Multiple Processors and Faster Processors

To what degree do Final Cut Studio's compute-intensive operations, such as rendering video or creating DVD content, scale by number of processor or clock rates of those processors.
More to the point, to what degree would I expect going from a dual 2GHz G5 machine to a quad (i.e., dual, dual-Pentium) 3GHz machine to approximately triple the throughput of such operations?
Thanks for the ideas!

I see some benchmarks on Apple's website regarding the new 8-processor Xeon machines.

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