x264

This is a multi-threaded test of the x264 video encoder run on the CPU with a choice of 1080p or 4K video input.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark x264.

Project Site

videolan.org

Source Repository

code.videolan.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

28 May 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Minutes, 10 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 11 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + 7-Zip / p7zip + Yasm Assembler + Nasm Assembler

Accolades

400k+ Downloads + 20k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 13 April 2024.

Revision History

pts/x264-2.7.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 May 2022 07:04:44 GMT
Update against x264 Git, add 4K option, switch to app thread management default rather than set outside, adjust slow option. Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/221 Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/189

pts/x264-2.6.1 [View Source] Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:05:51 GMT
No need to download nasm anymore since v2.6.0 switched to system nasm.

pts/x264-2.6.0 [View Source] Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:47:08 GMT
Update against upstream, use system nasm.

pts/x264-2.5.0 [View Source] Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:34:42 GMT
Update x264 against newer build, should help with compiling on GCC8.

pts/x264-2.4.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:18:07 GMT
Update against upstream x264 to fix build problem on Linux with newer GCC compiler.

pts/x264-2.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 08 Apr 2018 07:09:36 GMT
Build fixes for BSD.

pts/x264-2.3.1 [View Source] Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:22:39 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/x264-2.3.0 [View Source] Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:51:16 GMT
Update against latest upstream x264, also switch to new video source for mirror.

pts/x264-2.2.1 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:52:47 GMT
Build nasm internally within the test profile

pts/x264-2.2.0 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:41:32 GMT
Update x264 snapshot, now require nasm

pts/x264-2.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 19 May 2017 17:04:35 GMT
Update x264 against upstream daily snapshot.

pts/x264-2.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:24:24 GMT
Update against latest daily snapshot as previous snapshot was more than one year old.

pts/x264-1.9.0 [View Source] Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:08:56 GMT
Update x264 against latest upstream code.

pts/x264-1.8.1 [View Source] Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:55:54 GMT
Add --disable-opencl to build configure as its not used and causes build issues out of the box on Fedora.

pts/x264-1.8.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:46:21 GMT
Update against latest daily snapshot of x264: 9 January 2014.

pts/x264-1.7.0 [View Source] Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:49:04 GMT
Update upstream x264 software against 2013-06-08 snapshot.

pts/x264-1.6.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 May 2013 17:14:39 GMT
Update x264 against upstream 2013-05-14 release. Motivated by GCC 4.8 issues with previous release.

pts/x264-1.5.0 [View Source] Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:47:20 GMT
Update x264 upstream against 2013-01-28 snapshot.

pts/x264-1.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:33:27 GMT
Update x264 application against upstream snapshot 2012-10-03.

pts/x264-1.3.1 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:06:32 GMT
Update version string for x264.

pts/x264-1.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:13:30 GMT
Update x264 snapshot to upstream 2011-12-06.

pts/x264-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:36:20 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Video Encoding

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

x264 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,912 public results since 28 May 2022 with the latest data as of 15 April 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Frames Per Second (Average)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

100th

321 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores

100th

291 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

99th

285 ^{+/- 18}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

97th

263 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Core i9-14900K

96th

250 ^{+/- 28}

Intel Core i9-13900K

95th

247 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

95th

246 ^{+/- 7}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

95th

244 ^{+/- 23}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

94th

235 ^{+/- 5}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

94th

233 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core i7-13700KF

91st

221 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

90th

216 ^{+/- 32}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

90th

216 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i7-13700K

89th

214 ^{+/- 21}

Intel Core i9-12900K

89th

211 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

88th

210 ^{+/- 6}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

87th

204 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i5-14600K

86th

198 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

85th

195 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-13600K

84th

190 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

84th

189 ^{+/- 11}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

83rd

188 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

82nd

185 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

81st

182 ^{+/- 27}

AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core

81st

181 ^{+/- 22}

Intel Core i7-12700K

80th

180 ^{+/- 9}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

80th

180 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

80th

180 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

79th

177 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

79th

173 ^{+/- 8}

AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core

77th

168 ^{+/- 19}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

77th

168 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-14500

76th

160

Mid-Tier

75th

< 158

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

75th

158 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

75th

155 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

74th

147 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i5-12600K

72nd

143 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

72nd

143 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

71st

140 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

71st

140 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i9-10900K

70th

138 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

70th

138 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

69th

136 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i5-13400

68th

134

Intel Core i9-11900K

67th

132 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

67th

132 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

67th

131 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

66th

128 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

66th

127 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

65th

125

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core

65th

123 ^{+/- 10}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

65th

122 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

65th

121 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

64th

118 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

63rd

116 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

63rd

116 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

63rd

115

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

62nd

114 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

58th

110 ^{+/- 10}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

58th

110 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-10700K

58th

110 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core

57th

109

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

56th

108 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

56th

108

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

55th

105 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1280P

55th

105 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i9-9900K

55th

105 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

54th

102 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i5-12400

53rd

100 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core

53rd

100 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

52nd

99 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

52nd

99 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Gold 6338N

51st

98 ^{+/- 2}

Median

50th

Intel Core i5-11600K

50th

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

50th

94 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

48th

90 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

47th

87 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

47th

85 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-10600K

45th

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

43rd

79 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core

43rd

78 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-14100

43rd

Intel Core i7-8700K

42nd

77 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

41st

73 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-10700T

41st

73 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core

41st

Intel Core i7-5960X

40th

72 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

40th

72 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

40th

71 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

40th

71 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

37th

65 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

36th

64 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon W-3235

35th

61 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

35th

61 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-12100

35th

61 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core

33rd

59 ^{+/- 7}

AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core

32nd

56 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

31st

53 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-10100

30th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Apple M1 Pro

29th

51 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-7700

29th

50 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon L5640

28th

Intel Core i7-4790K

27th

47 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

27th

46 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

26th

46 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-3930K

26th

44 ^{+/- 2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 44

Intel Core i7-4790

24th

42 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-8750H

24th

41 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

24th

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

23rd

39 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8565U

22nd

38 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-3770

20th

33 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

20th

AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core

18th

31 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-2600

18th

30 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-6600K

17th

29 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-7100

15th

25 ^{+/- 1}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

12th

21 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Atom x6425RE

8th

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

7th

Intel Core i3-4010U

6th

10 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Embedded G GX-420GI Radeon R7E

5th

8 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Atom x5-Z8350

3rd

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (x264 2022-02-22 - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p) has an average run-time of 2 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 1.1%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit

ppc64le

POWER8E, POWER9 16-Core

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000-HV, Loongson-3A6000-HV

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686

(Many Processors)

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A7 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1, Apple M1 Max, Apple M1 Pro, Apple M3 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 32-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

onex264.txt 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Eng Sample 100-000000425_37/24_N - ASRockRack ROMED8-2T v1.03 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 214 Benchmark Results
2024-04-09-1129 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Snapdragon Compute - Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 - 1 x 32768 MB 2092MHz Hynix H9HCNNNFAMMLXR- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 211 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
2024-04-10-1051 1 System - 201 Benchmark Results	Ampere Altra Max - HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 - 16 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard Build 26085 - 10.0.26085.1 - 10.0.26085.1
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 208 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 192 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 188 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 152 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 148 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 147 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 144 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
x264results Featured Kernel Comparison	5.15.0-94-generic - 5.15.0-102-generic
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 129 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605
r8g.4xlarge 1 System - 122 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2023.4.20240401 - 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023.aarch64 - GCC 11.4.1 20230605

x264

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

x264 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results