dav1d

Dav1d is an open-source, speedy AV1 video decoder. This test profile times how long it takes to decode sample AV1 video content.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark dav1d.

Project Site

videolan.org

Source Repository

code.videolan.org

Test Created

18 December 2018

Last Updated

1 June 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Minutes, 57 Seconds

Average Run Time

10 Minutes, 3 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Yasm Assembler + Meson Build System

Accolades

100k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 23 July 2024.

Revision History

pts/dav1d-1.16.0 [View Source] Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:11:05 GMT
Update against dav1d 1.4.2 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.15.1 [View Source] Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:16:15 GMT
Update against FFmpeg 6.1.1 to fix build on newer distros.

pts/dav1d-1.15.0 [View Source] Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:09:26 GMT
Update against dav1d 1.4 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.14.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:13:46 GMT
Update against dav1d 1.2.1 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.13.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:57:55 GMT
Update against dav1d 1.1 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.12.0 [View Source] Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:15:53 GMT
Update against dav1d 1.0 upstream release.

pts/dav1d-1.11.2 [View Source] Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:24:36 GMT
Update download mirrors, closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/597

pts/dav1d-1.11.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:42:30 GMT
Update Windows FFmpeg build to newer location, newer version. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/553

pts/dav1d-1.11.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 Sep 2021 06:04:51 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.9.2 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.10.0 [View Source] Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:55:34 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.9.1 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.9.0 [View Source] Sun, 16 May 2021 13:39:23 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.9 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.8.0 [View Source] Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:31:01 GMT
Update against new upstream dav1d 0.8.2.

pts/dav1d-1.7.1 [View Source] Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:54:35 GMT
Update to latest dav1d hash.

pts/dav1d-1.7.0 [View Source] Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:43:19 GMT
Update against new upstream dav1d 0.8.1.

pts/dav1d-1.6.0 [View Source] Thu, 21 May 2020 14:58:06 GMT
Update against upstream dav1d 0.7.

pts/dav1d-1.5.0 [View Source] Tue, 10 Mar 2020 06:45:56 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.6.0 upstream.

pts/dav1d-1.4.1 [View Source] Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:26:24 GMT
Update download links per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/113

pts/dav1d-1.4.0 [View Source] Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:04:25 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.5 upstream, add Windows support.

pts/dav1d-1.3.0 [View Source] Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:53:19 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.4, make use of new FPS reporting, add Chimera video options. https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/103

pts/dav1d-1.2.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 May 2019 10:52:01 GMT
Update against dav1d 0.3 https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/79

pts/dav1d-1.1.0 [View Source] Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:23:31 GMT
Use null mixer for video output.

pts/dav1d-1.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:52:01 GMT
Initial commit of dav1d AV1 video decoder benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Video Encoding

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Encoding

Multi-Core

AV1

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

dav1d 1.4.2

Video Input: Summer Nature 4K

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 142 public results since 1 June 2024 with the latest data as of 23 July 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

FPS (Average)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

100th

441

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

97th

402

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

93rd

396 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i9-14900K

90th

388 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

88th

367

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

86th

360

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

84th

353

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

80th

343

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

78th

341

Mid-Tier

75th

< 341

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

71st

315 ^{+/- 1}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

68th

304 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

68th

299

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

59th

257

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

57th

255

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

57th

254 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

55th

246 ^{+/- 2}

Median

50th

235

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

49th

234 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

47th

224 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

40th

215

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

40th

212

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

34th

207 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1280P

32nd

196 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

30th

177 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

28th

168 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

26th

162

Low-Tier

25th

< 162

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

23rd

161 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

16th

134 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

13th

126

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

10th

99 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

9th

98 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-8565U

4th

74 ^{+/- 3}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (dav1d 1.4.2 - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K) has an average run-time of 2 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PUNPCKLQDQ CVTSI2SD DIVSD COMISD CVTTSD2SI SUBSD MOVAPD MULSD ADDSD MOVDQU PSUBQ ANDPD ORPD MOVD MOVDQA PSHUFLW PSHUFD PUNPCKHQDQ PSRLDQ PSLLDQ SHUFPD PSHUFHW PMULUDQ PADDQ

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP MOVSLDUP MOVSHDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PMADDUBSW PSHUFB PABSW PABSD PSIGND PABSB PSIGNB PMULHRSW PHADDD PHADDW PALIGNR PSIGNW PHADDSW

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VBROADCASTSD VEXTRACTF128 VBROADCASTSS

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VPBROADCASTW VPBROADCASTD VPBROADCASTB VPERMQ VINSERTI128 VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTQ VEXTRACTI128 VPGATHERDD VPGATHERDQ VPERMD VPBLENDD VPSRLVD VPSRAVD VPSLLVD

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Used by default on supported hardware.

VPDPWSSD VPDPBUSD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 6 June 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libdav1d.so.7, libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

Linux - Intel Alder Lake Laptop 1 System - 999 Benchmark Results
bd790i-cpu-finance-av1 2 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment DRFXI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
video-encode-benchmark1 1 System - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - Gigabyte Z790 UD AX - 2 x 16384MB 4800MHz Corsair CMH32GX5M2B5200C40 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3880 - 555.99
dkfkda 2 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - LENOVO ThinkPad T14s Gen 2a 20XF004WUS - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.8-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0
2021-09-09-1229 73 Systems - 527 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CW - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Arch Linux - 6.9.7-arch1-1 - GCC 14.1.1 20240522
2024-07-09-2312 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CW - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Arch Linux - 6.9.7-arch1-1 - GCC 14.1.1 20240522
5600g-vega56-av1 1 System - 41 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - MSI B450M-A PRO MAX II - AMD Renoir Arch rolling - 6.9.8-zen1-1-zen - Sway 1.9
fpgaserver3y 3 Systems - 141 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6148 - Supermicro X11SPW-TF v1.03 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-112-generic - X Server
Linux Laptops 2 Systems - 1012 Benchmark Results
/home/me/bench_av1.res 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.9.5-arch1-1 - GNOME Shell 46.2
dfff 2 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
test-dav1d 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - HUAWEI MACHD-WXX9-PCB-B1 - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Loongson-Archlinux-2022-07-12 10 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Custom APU 0405 - Valve Jupiter - AMD VanGogh Root Complex Gentoo 2.15 - 6.6.31-xanmod-rt31-x64v3-xanmod1 - KDE Plasma
Loongson-Archlinux-2022-07-12 9 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Custom APU 0405 - Valve Jupiter - AMD VanGogh Root Complex Gentoo 2.15 - 6.6.31-xanmod-rt31-x64v3-xanmod1 - KDE Plasma
6.1.79-Unraid + Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS Tests 1 System - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI - 64GB Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - 6.1.79-Unraid - NVIDIA

new sat 4 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
ddddfddd 2 Systems - 90 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell XPS 13 9310 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
xeon silver new 2 Systems - 66 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
Linux - Intel Meteor Lake vs. AMD Zen 4 Laptop Benchmarks 3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
june june 4 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
june juny 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
dlda 3 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo A12M MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
dkdddd 4 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8565U - Dell XPS 13 9380 0KTW76 - Intel Cannon Point-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
dddgdjda 3 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
mine av1 4 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-060800-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
ampere altra june 3 Systems - 56 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE G242-P36-00 MP32-AR2-00 v01000100 - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GCC 13.2.0
ddf 3 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
mtl june 4 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
ddf 3 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
ddgds 3 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 - AMD 17h Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0

dav1d

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

dav1d 1.4.2

Video Input: Summer Nature 4K

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results