x264-results AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 and AMD Radeon R9 290X/390X 32128MB on Xilka 4.0.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. FX-9590: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 4001GB Seagate ST4000DX000-1C51 + 3 x 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21 + 2 x 6001GB Seagate ST6000DX000-1H21, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Linux, Kernel: 3.16.1 (x86_64), Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.2.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 + PathScale 1.0.0 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0svn + CUDA 5.5, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 FX-9590 2017: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.72GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 3 x 8002GB HGST HUH728080AL + 2 x 6001GB Seagate ST6000DX000-1H21 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: ASUS MK241, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Xilka 4.0.1, Kernel: 4.10.6 (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.0.2 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0 128 bits), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.0.2, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 4.0.0 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FX-9590 2017 opencl: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.72GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 3 x 8002GB HGST HUH728080AL + 2 x 6001GB Seagate ST6000DX000-1H21 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: ASUS MK241, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Xilka 4.0.1, Kernel: 4.10.10 (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.0.3 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0 128 bits), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.0.3, Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 + Clang 4.0.0 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FX-9590 . 188.56 |============================================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better FX-9590 2017 ........ 188.56 |================================================= FX-9590 2017 opencl . 189.42 |=================================================