SVT Video Encoding + vpxenc Intel Core i9-9900K testing with a EVGA 121-KS-E375 v1.0 (1.09 BIOS) and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB on Gentoo 2.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Threadripper 2990WX: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1601 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: llvmpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel I211 + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac + Wilocity Wil6200 802.11ad OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-050000rc6-generic (x86_64) 20190210, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AMD EPYC 7351P: Processor: AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: ASRockRack EPYCD8-2T (P1.20 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 800GB INTEL SSDPE2ME800G4, Graphics: NVIDIA NV117 2GB, Audio: NVIDIA Device 0fbc, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Mellanox MT26448 + 2 x Intel 10G X550T OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 AMD Ryzen 7 1800X: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A31) v1.0 (1.G0 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR4-1600MHz, Disk: 128GB INTEL SSDPEKKW128G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4650, Audio: AMD RV710/730, Network: Intel I211 OS: Debian 9.5, Kernel: 4.18.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Intel Core i7 5960X: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-2800MHz CMK16GX4M4A2666C16, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 124MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Debian 9.5, Kernel: 4.18.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4 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 AMD Threadripper 2950X: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MEG X399 CREATION (MS-7B92) v1.0 (1.10 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 31GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: 2 x Intel I211 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190125, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Intel Core i9 9900K: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENT, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 64 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 5.0.0-rc1-phx-amd-stg-next (x86_64) 20190214, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.0-devel (git-7ed5ffa158) (LLVM 9.0.0), Vulkan: 1.1.90, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Core i9 7980XE: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA NV120 12GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 AMD Ryzen 7 2700X: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (WI-FI) (1001 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X 4GB (1260/1750MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel I211 + Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-15-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: 2560x1440 Core i7 7740X: Processor: Intel Core i7-7740K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming-CF (F2d BIOS), Chipset: Intel Kaby Lake, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GP108 2GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.20.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20181202, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 9900K 52x52x49 3900C15-2T: Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.20GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: EVGA 121-KS-E375 v1.0 (1.09 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 8th/9th, Memory: 32GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB + 256GB PLEXTOR PX-256M6 + 240GB KINGSTON SH103S3 + 2000GB Western Digital WD2003FZEX-0 + 2000GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB, Audio: NVIDIA GP102 HDMI Audio, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Gentoo 2.7, Kernel: 5.4.48-ck (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Vulkan: 1.2.142, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.0.0Target: + LLVM 11.0.0 + CUDA 11.1, File-System: reiserfs SVT-AV1 2019-02-15 1080p 8-bit YUV To AV1 Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Threadripper 2990WX ... 8.15 |========================================== AMD EPYC 7351P ............ 5.46 |============================ AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ......... 2.44 |============= Intel Core i7 5960X ....... 2.90 |=============== Intel Core i9 7960X ....... 8.64 |============================================= AMD Threadripper 2950X .... 7.29 |====================================== Intel Core i9 9900K ....... 5.75 |============================== Intel Core i9 7980XE ...... 8.49 |============================================ AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ......... 3.95 |===================== Core i7 7740X ............. 3.76 |==================== 9900K 52x52x49 3900C15-2T . 5.57 |============================= SVT-HEVC 2019-02-03 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Threadripper 2990WX ... 178.00 |========================= AMD EPYC 7351P ............ 167.00 |======================= AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ......... 143.00 |==================== Intel Core i7 5960X ....... 144.00 |==================== Intel Core i9 7960X ....... 296.00 |========================================= AMD Threadripper 2950X .... 234.00 |================================ Intel Core i9 9900K ....... 206.00 |============================ Intel Core i9 7980XE ...... 311.00 |=========================================== AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ......... 152.00 |===================== Core i7 7740X ............. 107.00 |=============== 9900K 52x52x49 3900C15-2T . 252.29 |=================================== SVT-VP9 2019-02-17 1080p 8-bit YUV To VP9 Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Threadripper 2990WX . 98.67 |============== AMD EPYC 7351P .......... 70.26 |========== AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ....... 41.25 |====== Intel Core i7 5960X ..... 36.73 |===== Intel Core i9 7960X ..... 303.54 |=========================================== AMD Threadripper 2950X .. 93.06 |============= Intel Core i9 9900K ..... 60.13 |========= Intel Core i9 7980XE .... 316.07 |============================================= AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ....... 53.44 |======== Core i7 7740X ........... 30.11 |==== VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.8.0 vpxenc VP9 1080p Video Encode Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Threadripper 2990WX ... 26.02 |=================================== AMD EPYC 7351P ............ 18.44 |========================= AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ......... 24.33 |================================= Intel Core i7 5960X ....... 21.31 |============================= Intel Core i9 7960X ....... 22.50 |============================== AMD Threadripper 2950X .... 26.84 |==================================== Intel Core i9 9900K ....... 31.14 |========================================== Intel Core i9 7980XE ...... 22.75 |=============================== AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ......... 26.95 |==================================== Core i7 7740X ............. 27.43 |===================================== 9900K 52x52x49 3900C15-2T . 32.57 |============================================ AOM AV1 2019-02-11 AV1 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Ryzen 7 1800X ...... 0.18 |============================== Intel Core i7 5960X .... 0.19 |=============================== Intel Core i9 7960X .... 0.23 |====================================== AMD Threadripper 2950X . 0.21 |=================================== Intel Core i9 9900K .... 0.29 |================================================ Intel Core i9 7980XE ... 0.22 |==================================== AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ...... 0.20 |================================= Core i7 7740X .......... 0.21 |===================================