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

13 February 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 26 Seconds

Average Run Time

15 Minutes, 3 Seconds

Test Dependencies

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

Accolades

200k+ 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 20 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/vpxenc-3.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:09:40 GMT
Update against libvpx 1.13 upstream.

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

Video Encoding

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.13

Speed: Speed 5 - Input: Bosphorus 4K

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 360 public results since 13 February 2023 with the latest data as of 21 November 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

Frames Per Second (Average)

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

100th

28.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

100th

27.5 ^{+/- 1.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

98th

26.6 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

94th

23.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

93rd

23.3 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core i9-14900K

92nd

22.9 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i9-13900K

88th

22.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

83rd

22.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

81st

22.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

78th

21.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

77th

21.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 21.5

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

74th

21.3 ^{+/- 1.6}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

72nd

20.5

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

70th

20.4 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores

70th

20.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

67th

18.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

65th

17.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core

62nd

16.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core

61st

15.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

58th

14.6 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

58th

14.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

55th

14.1

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

53rd

13.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-12600K

53rd

13.5

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

51st

13.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Median

50th

13.4

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

49th

13.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-12400

46th

12.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-10700T

43rd

10.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

42nd

10.5 ^{+/- 1.4}

Intel Core i7-8700K

41st

10.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

40th

10.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

39th

9.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

37th

9.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

34th

9.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

34th

9.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

33rd

9.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Apple M2

31st

8.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

26th

8.2

Low-Tier

25th

< 8.0

Intel Core i7-1185G7

25th

7.9

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

24th

7.8

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

23rd

7.8

Intel Core i9-10980XE

21st

7.7

Intel Core i7-5960X

21st

7.5

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

20th

6.8

Intel Core i7-1065G7

17th

6.2

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

16th

6.1

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

15th

5.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

13th

5.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

7th

2.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

7th

2.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

5th

0.9

rv64imafdcvsu

3rd

0.2

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.13 - Speed: Speed 5 - Input: Bosphorus 4K) has an average run-time of 5 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 0.3%.

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, rv64imafdcvsu

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

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