H265 Xeon
Intel Xeon Gold 5217 testing with a Supermicro X11SPL-F v1.02 (3.1 BIOS) and llvmpipe on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Xeon Gold 5217: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Gold 5217 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SPL-F v1.02 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 6 x 32 GB DDR4-2933MT/s Kingston, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.2 (LLVM 9.0.1 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

2: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Gold 5217 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SPL-F v1.02 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 6 x 32 GB DDR4-2933MT/s Kingston, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.2 (LLVM 9.0.1 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

3: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon Gold 5217 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X11SPL-F v1.02 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 6 x 32 GB DDR4-2933MT/s Kingston, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel I210

	OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.7, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.7, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.2 (LLVM 9.0.1 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Slow
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 3.49 |========================================================
2 .............. 3.49 |========================================================
3 .............. 3.49 |========================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Medium
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 3.57 |========================================================
2 .............. 3.57 |========================================================
3 .............. 3.57 |========================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Slow
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 15.14 |=======================================================
2 .............. 15.15 |=======================================================
3 .............. 15.13 |=======================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Medium
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 15.59 |=======================================================
2 .............. 15.55 |=======================================================
3 .............. 15.55 |=======================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Very Fast
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 10.19 |=======================================================
2 .............. 10.19 |=======================================================
3 .............. 10.20 |=======================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Ultra Fast
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 18.60 |=======================================================
2 .............. 18.57 |=======================================================
3 .............. 18.52 |=======================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Very Fast
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 36.84 |=======================================================
2 .............. 36.84 |=======================================================
3 .............. 36.77 |=======================================================


Kvazaar 2.0
Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Ultra Fast
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 70.20 |=======================================================
2 .............. 70.31 |=======================================================
3 .............. 70.32 |=======================================================


x265 3.4
Video Input: Bosphorus 4K
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 8.49 |========================================================
2 .............. 8.19 |======================================================
3 .............. 8.26 |======================================================


x265 3.4
Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Xeon Gold 5217 . 38.44 |=======================================================
2 .............. 37.30 |=====================================================
3 .............. 37.51 |======================================================