VP9 libvpx Encoding

This is a standard video encoding performance test of Google's libvpx library and the vpxenc command for the VP9 video format.

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

Project Site

webmproject.org

Source Repository

chromium.googlesource.com

Test Created

8 December 2011

Last Updated

3 June 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Minutes, 24 Seconds

Average Run Time

15 Minutes, 3 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Yasm Assembler + 7-Zip / p7zip

Accolades

150k+ 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 current as of 24 January 2023.

Revision History

pts/vpxenc-3.1.0 [View Source] Thu, 03 Jun 2021 10:10:00 GMT
Update against libvpx 1.10 upstream, set row-mt=1 option, add 4K option.

pts/vpxenc-3.0.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 Jan 2020 11:54:04 GMT
Update test profile from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/121 plus fixes from https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/90

pts/vpxenc-2.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:25:01 GMT
Update libvpx upstream https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/100

pts/vpxenc-2.4.0 [View Source] Thu, 30 May 2019 08:08:21 GMT
Add --row-mt=1 argument to vpxenc test for better multi-threaded performance per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/83

pts/vpxenc-2.3.0 [View Source] Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:13:20 GMT
Use the same input file as SVT-VP9 test profile.

pts/vpxenc-2.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:37:51 GMT
Update against libvpx 1.8.0

pts/vpxenc-2.1.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:20:20 GMT
Limit the thread count to 64, if above 64, vpxenc complains of CPU thread count being too high.

pts/vpxenc-2.1.0 [View Source] Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:58:27 GMT
Update build script, switch to new source file.

pts/vpxenc-2.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:39:48 GMT
Update against libvpx 1.7.0, use new source video, various parameter updates, etc. Big rework overall.

pts/vpxenc-1.4.0 [View Source] Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:03:13 GMT
Build fixes

pts/vpxenc-1.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:15:09 GMT
Update against upstream vpxenc 1.6 upstream plus GCC6 compatibility fix reported by Victor

pts/vpxenc-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:11:22 GMT
Update against libvpx 1.3.0

pts/vpxenc-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:43:04 GMT
Update against upstream VP8 libvpx 1.1.0 release.

pts/vpxenc-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:15:46 GMT
First commit of a vpxenc - Google libvpx VP8 video encoding test.

Suites Using This Test

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Video Encoding

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.10.0

Speed: Speed 5 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 734 public results since 3 June 2021 with the latest data as of 18 January 2023.

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

Frames Per Second (Average)

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

100th

57.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

100th

56.6 ^{+/- 3.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

99th

54.1 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

99th

52.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i9-13900K

97th

51.2 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

95th

48.9 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

95th

48.5 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-13600K

93rd

47.3 ^{+/- 2.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

93rd

46.9

Intel Core i9-12900K

92nd

46.5 ^{+/- 2.5}

Intel Core i5-12600K

89th

44.1 ^{+/- 3.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

87th

42.3 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

83rd

39.9 ^{+/- 2.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

81st

39.2 ^{+/- 4.3}

Intel Core i5-12400

81st

39.1 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

80th

39.0 ^{+/- 1.3}

Intel Core i9-11900K

78th

38.0 ^{+/- 3.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

77th

37.7 ^{+/- 1.7}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 36.7

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

74th

36.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

72nd

34.2 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-11600K

70th

33.1 ^{+/- 4.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

68th

32.4 ^{+/- 4.6}

Intel Core i9-10900K

68th

32.1 ^{+/- 2.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

68th

32.1 ^{+/- 2.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

66th

31.7 ^{+/- 2.8}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

66th

31.6 ^{+/- 3.6}

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

66th

31.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i3-12100

66th

31.5 ^{+/- 1.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

65th

31.0 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

64th

31.0 ^{+/- 3.5}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

63rd

30.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

62nd

29.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

60th

29.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-10600K

59th

29.0 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

57th

28.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

57th

28.6 ^{+/- 3.1}

Intel Core i7-7740K

57th

28.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

57th

28.4 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

56th

28.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

55th

28.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

54th

28.1 ^{+/- 3.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

54th

27.9 ^{+/- 2.4}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

53rd

27.3 ^{+/- 3.9}

Intel Core i7-8086K

53rd

27.3

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core

52nd

27.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

52nd

27.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-8700K

52nd

26.9 ^{+/- 0.2}

Median

50th

26.7

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

50th

26.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

50th

26.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

49th

26.4 ^{+/- 0.2}

Apple M2

47th

26.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-10750H

45th

25.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

44th

25.6

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

43rd

25.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i3-10100

42nd

25.4 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

42nd

25.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

42nd

25.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

40th

25.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

Apple M1

39th

25.0

Intel Core i5-9400F

38th

24.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-8400

36th

24.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

36th

24.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-7600K

35th

24.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

34th

23.8 ^{+/- 2.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

34th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.2}

Intel Core i3-8100

34th

22.8 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

33rd

22.7 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

32nd

22.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

31st

22.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-10700T

30th

22.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

29th

22.2

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

29th

22.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

28th

22.0 ^{+/- 2.3}

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

28th

21.9

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

28th

21.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-5960X

27th

21.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

26th

21.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 20.9

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

25th

20.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

24th

20.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-6500

24th

20.3

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

23rd

20.3 ^{+/- 1.1}

Intel Core i7-8550U

21st

18.7 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Celeron G6900

20th

18.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

18th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

18th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

18th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-4770K

17th

17.5 ^{+/- 0.9}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

17th

17.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-8565U

16th

17.3 ^{+/- 1.7}

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

16th

17.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

13th

15.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i3-7100

13th

15.0 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

13th

14.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

12th

14.2 ^{+/- 0.9}

Intel Core i7-3770K

11th

13.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

10th

13.1

Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core

7th

11.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

6th

10.3

Intel Core i3-4130

5th

9.1

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

4th

9.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

3rd

8.9

Intel Core i7-3517U

3rd

7.6

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.10.0 - Speed: Speed 5 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p) 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 0.2%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

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)

RISC-V 64-bit

riscv64

SiFive RISC-V

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2

Lenovo Thinkpad T14s pts/video-encoding 2023-01-18 1 System - 95 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CQCTO1WW - AMD 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex Debian - 6.1.0-1-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.6
Lenovo Thinkpad T480s pts/video-encoding #2 1 System - 95 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8550U - LENOVO 20L70053GE - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Debian - 6.0.0-5-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.5
TRN-c6i.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105070638 1 System - 139 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6i.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105070638 1 System - 138 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6a.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105020358 1 System - 139 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7R13 - Amazon EC2 c6a.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6a.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105020358 1 System - 138 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7R13 - Amazon EC2 c6a.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020426 1 System - 116 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020426 1 System - 115 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6i.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105070638 1 System - 129 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6i.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105070638 1 System - 128 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6i.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64-20230105070638 1 System - 127 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C - Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.x86_64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c7g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020415 1 System - 116 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020426 1 System - 106 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c7g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020415 1 System - 106 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 - Amazon EC2 c7g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0
TRN-c6g.4xlarge-5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64-20230105020426 1 System - 105 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - Amazon EC2 c6g.4xlarge - Amazon Device 0200 Amazon Linux 2 - 5.10.157-139.675.amzn2.aarch64 - GCC 12.2.0

10100 june 3 Systems - 23 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-10100 - Gigabyte B460M DS3H - Intel Device 9b63 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201002-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.3
Intel Alder Lake On Linux - i5-12600K / i9-12900K 9 Systems - 146 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.15.0-051500rc6daily20211023-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
Pop OS 21.04 2 Systems - 354 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Pop 21.04 - 5.11.0-7620-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
5800x june 4 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.12.0-rc5-nopsf - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
8700k september 4 Systems - 196 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8700K - ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - Intel 8th Gen Core Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc6daily20200923-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
3990X June 5 Systems - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-17-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
intel i5-11600k multicore 12 Systems - 278 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
AMD Ryzen 5800X, 5800X3D, 5950X Linux Benchmarks 3 Systems - 531 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.4-051704-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
server-cpus-june-2021 3 Systems - 214 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
clearlinux-ryzen3-4350 6 Systems - 254 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G - ASRock B450M Pro4 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Clear Linux OS 35000 - 5.13.13-1070.native - GNOME Shell 40.4
7100 june 3 Systems - 117 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-7100 - Gigabyte B250M-DS3H-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
AMD FX-8150 2021 4 Systems - 75 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS - AMD RS780 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
EPYC 72F3 September 2021 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.01 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.14.0-rc7-amd-pstate-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
10900k june 3 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900daily20201012-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4

VP9 libvpx Encoding

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

VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.10.0

Speed: Speed 5 - Input: Bosphorus 1080p

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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