baseline-video-encoding Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASUS Z97-A and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. native: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB PLEXTOR PX-256M6 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2340L, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-66-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 17.0.0- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better native . 161.19 |============================================================== FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better native . 10.20 |=============================================================== Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better native . 17.01 |===============================================================