all KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E312xx: Processor: Intel Xeon E312xx @ 2.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: oVirt Node, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 11GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-35-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: KVM x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E312xx . 103.99 |=================================================== FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E312xx . 14.53 |==================================================== Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E312xx . 39.13 |====================================================