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

51 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

* 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 20 September 2021.

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 2,517 public results since 19 February 2020 with the latest data as of 25 September 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

# Compatible Public Results

Frames Per Second (Average)

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

100th

236 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

100th

229 ^{+/- 11}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

99th

225 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

99th

223 ^{+/- 28}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

99th

222 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

98th

220 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores

98th

219 ^{+/- 17}

2 x AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

98th

215 ^{+/- 21}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

98th

215 ^{+/- 23}

2 x AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

97th

213 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

96th

209 ^{+/- 4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

96th

209 ^{+/- 6}

AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

95th

208 ^{+/- 10}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

95th

207 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

94th

205 ^{+/- 29}

2 x AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

94th

205 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core

94th

205 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

94th

204 ^{+/- 20}

2 x AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

93rd

202 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core

93rd

201 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core

91st

197 ^{+/- 22}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

91st

196 ^{+/- 28}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

90th

194 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

90th

193 ^{+/- 12}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

90th

192 ^{+/- 24}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

90th

191 ^{+/- 20}

AMD EPYC 7J13 64-Core

89th

188 ^{+/- 8}

AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

88th

186 ^{+/- 6}

AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

85th

176 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

85th

175 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

84th

174 ^{+/- 16}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6258R

84th

173 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core

82nd

168 ^{+/- 19}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

81st

166 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

81st

164 ^{+/- 18}

AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core

81st

164 ^{+/- 13}

AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

81st

163 ^{+/- 19}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6230R

81st

163 ^{+/- 4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

80th

162 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

80th

162 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

78th

157 ^{+/- 14}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6238R

78th

155 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6250

77th

151 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

76th

149 ^{+/- 13}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 147

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

75th

147 ^{+/- 3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

75th

147 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Gold 6258R

75th

146 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C

74th

145 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

74th

145 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

73rd

143 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

72nd

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 Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

70th

137 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core

70th

137 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i9-7960X

68th

133 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

68th

133 ^{+/- 18}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

68th

131 ^{+/- 13}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

66th

125 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i9-10900K

66th

125 ^{+/- 6}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138

66th

123 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

64th

117 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i9-11900K

64th

117 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

63rd

114 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core

63rd

114 ^{+/- 8}

AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

63rd

113 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

62nd

111 ^{+/- 4}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4214R

62nd

111 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i9-9900K

60th

104 ^{+/- 7}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

59th

101 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core

59th

101 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-10700K

58th

100 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon Gold 6136

58th

100 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G

57th

99 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

57th

99 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

56th

97 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

56th

96 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

56th

96 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

56th

95 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

55th

94 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon Gold 5218

55th

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

54th

93 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

54th

93 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

54th

93 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4215R

53rd

Intel Core i5-11600K

52nd

89 ^{+/- 4}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4210

51st

86 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

51st

86 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

51st

83 ^{+/- 3}

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}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

48th

76 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4214R

48th

76 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

48th

76 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

46th

75 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-10600K

46th

75 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

44th

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

44th

72 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-8700K

44th

71 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core

44th

71 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-8700

43rd

69 ^{+/- 2}

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 Core i7-9850H

40th

61 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Xeon Gold 5217

40th

60 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

40th

59 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-5960X

39th

Intel Core i5-9400F

39th

Intel Core i5-8400

39th

55 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U

38th

54 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon Silver 4215R

38th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-6800K

38th

52 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

37th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-7740K

37th

Intel Core i7-7700K

36th

50 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

36th

50 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core

36th

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G

36th

48 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

34th

45 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

33rd

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

32nd

39 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4770K

31st

38 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4108

31st

Intel Core i7-1185G7

30th

37 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i7-8650U

29th

34 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 8-Core

28th

Intel Core i5-7600K

28th

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

28th

33 ^{+/- 4}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

27th

Intel Core i5-4690K

27th

31 ^{+/- 3}

Low-Tier

25th

< 29

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

25th

Intel Core i5-1035G1

24th

28 ^{+/- 4}

AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core

24th

28 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i5-8400H

24th

28 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-6500

24th

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

23rd

Intel Core i5-8250U

23rd

26 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

22nd

Intel Core i7-2700K

21st

25 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-8100T

21st

24 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-3610QM

21st

23 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-2500K

19th

21 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-3470

19th

21 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-10110U

19th

20 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7 920

18th

19 ^{+/- 2}

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

18th

Intel Core i7-4558U

18th

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

17th

16 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-4130

17th

Intel Pentium Silver J5040

16th

Intel Core i5-6300U

15th

15 ^{+/- 1}

AMD A10-7850K APU

15th

14 ^{+/- 1}

POWER9 4-Core

15th

Intel Core i5-7Y54

13th

ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core

13th

13 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon 5150

11th

10 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5 480M

11th

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core

10th

Intel Xeon E5310

8th

Intel Celeron J1900

7th

Intel Xeon 3050

6th

Intel Pentium Dual E2220

6th

ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core

5th

Intel Pentium Dual T2310

4th

ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core

4th

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 1.5%.

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.

x264-1 Featured Kernel Comparison	5.14.7-gentoo-clang-lto-prjc - 5.14.7-gentoo-clang-lto
yes 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8700 - Gigabyte B360M DS3H - 2 x 8192 MB 2400MHz Kingston Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 21390 - 10.0 - 26.20.100.7642
multicore-result 3 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
x264-1 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Gentoo - 5.14.7-gentoo-clang-lto-prjc - KDE Plasma 5.22.5
yyyyeay 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - Oracle ASY Generic SM E1-2c - 16 x 32768 MB 2400MHz Samsung M393A4K40BB2-CTD Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Build 14393 - 10.0 - 9.25.36.24
old machine Featured Display Driver Comparison	27.20.100.8280 - 26.20.100.7642
2021-09-21-0849 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	AMD GX-415GA SOC - Inventec DQ Class - 8GB Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS - 5.12.16-1054.native - GCC 9.3.0
multicore-result 3 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
yyetaty 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Kali 2021.3 - 5.10.0-kali9-amd64 - KDE Plasma
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 96 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
multicore-result 3 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server
2021-09-21-0804 1 System - 22 Benchmark Results	Intel Celeron J4105 - Dell 01Y1CJ - 12GB Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS - 5.10.19-1032.native - GCC 9.3.0
cpu-suite-result1 2 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 rev 0 - e3360_1099 - 32GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.41-tegra - X Server

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

Performance Metrics

x264 2019-12-17

H.264 Video Encoding

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

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