7960x video encode Intel Core i9-7960X testing with a MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS) and Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB on Ubuntu 18.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i9-7960X: Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Intel I219-V + Intel I211 OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AOM AV1 2019-02-11 AV1 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9-7960X . 0.23 |=================================================== VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.8.0 vpxenc VP9 1080p Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9-7960X . 22.68 |================================================== x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Core i9-7960X . 51.74 |==================================================