stock-videoencoding AMD A10-5800K APU testing with a Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on LinuxMint 17.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. encoding: Processor: AMD A10-5800K APU @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 500GB SAMSUNG HD502IJ + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB, Audio: AMD FCH Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: LinuxMint 17.2, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better encoding . 83.19 |============================================================= FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better encoding . 18.52 |============================================================= Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better encoding . 27.80 |=============================================================