x264_8350 AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 and ATI Radeon HD 6800 1024MB on Fedora 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 8 threads: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 1000GB Seagate ST31000520AS + 1000GB Elements 1042, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (850/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CMC 22 W, Network: Realtek RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g OS: Fedora 17, Kernel: 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11931, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 16 threads: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 1000GB Seagate ST31000520AS + 1000GB Elements 1042, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (850/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CMC 22 W, Network: Realtek RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g OS: Fedora 17, Kernel: 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11931, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 24 threads: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 1000GB Seagate ST31000520AS + 1000GB Elements 1042, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (850/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CMC 22 W, Network: Realtek RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g OS: Fedora 17, Kernel: 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11931, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 32 threads: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 1000GB Seagate ST31000520AS + 1000GB Elements 1042, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (850/1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CMC 22 W, Network: Realtek RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g OS: Fedora 17, Kernel: 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11931, Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 8 threads .. 163.01 |===================================================== 16 threads . 176.88 |========================================================= 24 threads . 178.51 |========================================================== 32 threads . 176.25 |=========================================================