opterons-ffmpeg 2 x AMD Opteron 270 testing with a Tyan S2895 and AMD Radeon X1900 XT (Primary) 512MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. initial ffmpeg benchmark: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 270 @ 2.01GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Tyan S2895, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 8 x 128 MB DRAM, Disk: 80GB Seagate ST380811AS + 2 x 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 2 x 250GB Seagate ST3250823A + 500GB Seagate ST3500630AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1900 XT (Primary) 512MB (500/600MHz), Audio: NVIDIA CK804 AC 97 Audio, Monitor: PLE480/481 OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.4, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better initial ffmpeg benchmark . 31.40 |=============================================