x264

This is a simple test of the x264 encoder run on the CPU (OpenCL support disabled) with a sample video file.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark x264.

Project Site

videolan.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

19 February 2020

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

50 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 11 Seconds

Test Dependencies

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

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

* 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.
Data current as of Sat, 10 Apr 2021 18:40:37 GMT.

Revision History

pts/x264-2.6.1 [View Source] Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:05:51 GMT
No need to download nasm anymore since v2.6.0 switched to system nasm.

pts/x264-2.6.0 [View Source] Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:47:08 GMT
Update against upstream, use system nasm.

pts/x264-2.5.0 [View Source] Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:34:42 GMT
Update x264 against newer build, should help with compiling on GCC8.

pts/x264-2.4.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:18:07 GMT
Update against upstream x264 to fix build problem on Linux with newer GCC compiler.

pts/x264-2.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 08 Apr 2018 07:09:36 GMT
Build fixes for BSD.

pts/x264-2.3.1 [View Source] Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:22:39 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/x264-2.3.0 [View Source] Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:51:16 GMT
Update against latest upstream x264, also switch to new video source for mirror.

pts/x264-2.2.1 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:52:47 GMT
Build nasm internally within the test profile

pts/x264-2.2.0 [View Source] Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:41:32 GMT
Update x264 snapshot, now require nasm

pts/x264-2.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 19 May 2017 17:04:35 GMT
Update x264 against upstream daily snapshot.

pts/x264-2.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:24:24 GMT
Update against latest daily snapshot as previous snapshot was more than one year old.

pts/x264-1.9.0 [View Source] Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:08:56 GMT
Update x264 against latest upstream code.

pts/x264-1.8.1 [View Source] Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:55:54 GMT
Add --disable-opencl to build configure as its not used and causes build issues out of the box on Fedora.

pts/x264-1.8.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:46:21 GMT
Update against latest daily snapshot of x264: 9 January 2014.

pts/x264-1.7.0 [View Source] Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:49:04 GMT
Update upstream x264 software against 2013-06-08 snapshot.

pts/x264-1.6.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 May 2013 17:14:39 GMT
Update x264 against upstream 2013-05-14 release. Motivated by GCC 4.8 issues with previous release.

pts/x264-1.5.0 [View Source] Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:47:20 GMT
Update x264 upstream against 2013-01-28 snapshot.

pts/x264-1.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:33:27 GMT
Update x264 application against upstream snapshot 2012-10-03.

pts/x264-1.3.1 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:06:32 GMT
Update version string for x264.

pts/x264-1.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:13:30 GMT
Update x264 snapshot to upstream 2011-12-06.

pts/x264-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:36:20 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Video Encoding

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

x264 2019-12-17

H.264 Video Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 2,051 public results since 19 February 2020 with the latest data as of 11 April 2021.

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

# Matching Public Results

Frames Per Second (Average)

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

100th

238 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

100th

228 ^{+/- 12}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

100th

225 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

100th

223 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

100th

221 ^{+/- 29}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores

99th

219 ^{+/- 17}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

99th

216 ^{+/- 25}

2 x AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

99th

213 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

97th

209 ^{+/- 6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

97th

209 ^{+/- 4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

96th

207 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

95th

205 ^{+/- 29}

2 x AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core

95th

205 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

95th

205 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

94th

204 ^{+/- 20}

2 x AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

94th

202 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core

93rd

201 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

92nd

196 ^{+/- 28}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

91st

194 ^{+/- 10}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

91st

193 ^{+/- 23}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

91st

191 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

91st

190 ^{+/- 21}

AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

86th

176 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

86th

175 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

85th

174 ^{+/- 16}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6258R

85th

173 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core

83rd

168 ^{+/- 19}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

83rd

166 ^{+/- 9}

AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core

83rd

166 ^{+/- 12}

AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

82nd

163 ^{+/- 19}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230R

82nd

163 ^{+/- 4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

81st

162 ^{+/- 6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

81st

162 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

79th

157 ^{+/- 14}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

79th

156 ^{+/- 22}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6238R

79th

155 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6250

78th

151 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

77th

149 ^{+/- 13}

2 x AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

76th

147 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

76th

147 ^{+/- 3}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 146

Intel Xeon Gold 6258R

75th

146 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

74th

145 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C

74th

145 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

73rd

143 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

71st

141 ^{+/- 8}

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

71st

140 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

70th

138 ^{+/- 5}

AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core

70th

138

AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core

69th

137 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

69th

137 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

67th

133 ^{+/- 18}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

67th

131 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i9-10900K

65th

125 ^{+/- 6}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

65th

125 ^{+/- 15}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138

65th

123 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i9-11900K

64th

119 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

62nd

116 ^{+/- 6}

AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core

62nd

114 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

62nd

114 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

61st

113 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

61st

111 ^{+/- 4}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4214R

60th

109 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core

58th

101 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-9900K

58th

101 ^{+/- 10}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

58th

101 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Gold 6136

58th

100 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

57th

99 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G

57th

99 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-10700K

57th

99 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

56th

96 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

56th

96 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon Gold 5218

55th

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

55th

94 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

53rd

93 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

53rd

93 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

53rd

93 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4215R

52nd

Intel Core i5-11600K

52nd

89 ^{+/- 4}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210

51st

86 ^{+/- 1}

Median

50th

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

50th

80 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

50th

79 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

49th

78 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

48th

77 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

48th

77 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon Silver 4214R

47th

76 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

47th

76 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

47th

76 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-10600K

46th

75 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

46th

75 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

44th

AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

44th

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core

43rd

71 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-8700K

43rd

71 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

42nd

67 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

42nd

66 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

41st

62 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core

41st

Intel Xeon Gold 5217

40th

60 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

39th

58 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-5960X

39th

Intel Core i5-9400F

39th

Intel Core i5-8400

38th

55 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

38th

55 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U

38th

54 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-6800K

37th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4215R

37th

52 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

36th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-7740K

36th

Intel Core i7-7700K

36th

50 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G

35th

50 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core

35th

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

33rd

45 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

32nd

Intel Core i7-4790K

32nd

41 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

32nd

Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5

32nd

41 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

31st

38 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4770K

31st

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4108

30th

Intel Core i7-1165G7

28th

34 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8650U

28th

34 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-7600K

27th

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

27th

33 ^{+/- 4}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

27th

Low-Tier

25th

< 30

AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core

25th

29 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-3770K

25th

29 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-8100

25th

29 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-8550U

24th

Intel Core i5-1035G1

24th

28 ^{+/- 4}

AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core

24th

28 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i5-8400H

23rd

28 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-6500

23rd

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

22nd

Intel Core i5-8250U

22nd

26 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

21st

Intel Core i7-2700K

21st

25 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-2500K

18th

21 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-3470

18th

21 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-10110U

18th

20 ^{+/- 1}

AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C

17th

Intel Core i7-4558U

16th

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

16th

16 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-4130

15th

Intel Pentium Silver J5040

15th

AMD A10-7850K APU

14th

14 ^{+/- 1}

POWER9 4-Core

13th

Intel Core i5-7Y54

12th

2 x Intel Xeon 5150

10th

10 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5 480M

10th

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core

9th

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

7th

6 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E5310

7th

Intel Celeron J1900

6th

Intel Xeon 3050

5th

Intel Pentium Dual E2220

5th

Intel Pentium Dual T2310

4th

ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core

3rd

Mobile AMD Sempron 3500

3rd

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (x264 2019-12-17 - H.264 Video Encoding) has an average run-time of 3 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 1.6%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does 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.

phoronix-x264-test-01 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Atom N270 - American Megatrends 080015 - Intel Mobile 945GSE MCH + ICH7-M Ubuntu 18.04 - 5.3.6-050306-generic - LXDE 0.9.3
Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance 12 Systems - 453 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3
quicktest 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i7-10700K - MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS - 4 x 16384 MB 3000MHz F4-3000C16-16GISB Microsoft Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Build 21354 - 10.0 - 461.92
win2012 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 - (20171212 BIOS) - 4 x 16384 MB Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation Build 9600 - 6.3 - 6.3.9600.16384
win2012 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Xeon Gold 6140 - (20171212 BIOS) - 4 x 16384 MB Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation Build 9600 - 6.3 - 6.3.9600.16384
native_cpu 1 System - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon - Red Hat RHEL-AV - Intel 82G33 Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-12-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516
noncpuflags_cpu 1 System - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon - Red Hat RHEL-AV - Intel 82G33 Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-12-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516
broadwell_cpu 1 System - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Core - Red Hat RHEL-AV - Intel 82G33 Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-12-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516
y 11 Systems - 8 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700K - MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS - 4 x 16384 MB 3000MHz F4-3000C16-16GISB Microsoft Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Insider Preview Build 21343 - 10.0 - 461.92
cpuupgrade 2 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - MSI B450 TOMAHAWK - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-70-generic - Xfce 4.14
CPU_Upgrade 1 System - 21 Benchmark Results
lambiants 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Xeon Gold 6258R - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-70-generic - LXQt 0.14.1

x264

Project Site

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

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Video Encoding

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

x264 2019-12-17

H.264 Video Encoding

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

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