audio AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte B450 GAMING X (F41 BIOS) and Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB on Arch rolling (AMD-optimized Kernel) via the Phoronix Test Suite. audio_few_bg_processes: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 GAMING X (F41 BIOS), Chipset: AMD 17h, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 240GB KINGSTON SA400S3 + 5001GB Seagate ST5000DM003-2FH1 + 1000GB Samsung SSD 860 + 62GB Ultra, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1590/800MHz), Audio: AMD Vega 10 HDMI Audio, Monitor: HS275HFB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 5.11.11-AMD (x86_64), Desktop: Sway 1.5.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.10 + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.1 (LLVM 11.1.0), Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.1.0 + LLVM 11.1.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better audio_few_bg_processes . 9.543 |=============================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better audio_few_bg_processes . 8.341 |=============================================== Ogg Audio Encoding 1.3.4 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better audio_few_bg_processes . 20.29 |=============================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To Opus Encode Seconds < Lower Is Better audio_few_bg_processes . 7.820 |=============================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 5.3 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better audio_few_bg_processes . 13.16 |===============================================