jay Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. jay-encoding: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB SanDisk SDSSDX24 + 3 x 3001GB HGST HDN724030AL + 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS + 3001GB Backup+ Desk + 17592GB 5D, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (540/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.13.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 331.38, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + CUDA 5.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better jay-encoding . 182.91 |======================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better jay-encoding . 13.82 |========================================================= Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better jay-encoding . 20.16 |=========================================================