mp3 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core testing with a Gigabyte B450 AORUS M (F40 BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-6600: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI B150M PRO-VDH D3 (MS-7982) v2.0 (B.10 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: PHL 275C5, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Anarchy Linux, Kernel: 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 430.26, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.99, Compiler: GCC 9.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 mp3-x264-i5-6600: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI B150M PRO-VDH D3 (MS-7982) v2.0 (B.10 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: PHL 275C5, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Anarchy Linux, Kernel: 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 430.26, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.99, Compiler: GCC 9.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 mp3-x264-i5-6600-clean: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI B150M PRO-VDH D3 (MS-7982) v2.0 (B.10 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: PHL 275C5, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Anarchy Linux, Kernel: 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 430.26, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.1.99, Compiler: GCC 9.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 mp3-r5-3600: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core @ 3.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 AORUS M (F40 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Device 1480, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP104 HD Audio, Monitor: PHL 275C5, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.18.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.7, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.116, OpenGL: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4480x1440 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-6600 ..... 35.58 |=============================================== mp3-x264-i5-6600 ....... 32.50 |=========================================== mp3-x264-i5-6600-clean . 31.08 |========================================= mp3-r5-3600 ............ 26.65 |=================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better mp3-x264-i5-6600 ....... 29.05 |================== mp3-x264-i5-6600-clean . 29.94 |=================== mp3-x264-i5-6600-clean . 30.24 |=================== mp3-r5-3600 ............ 74.53 |===============================================