x264

This is a multi-threaded test of the x264 video encoder run on the CPU with a choice of 1080p or 4K video input.

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

Project Site

videolan.org

Source Repository

code.videolan.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

28 May 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 11 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 24 September 2022.

Revision History

pts/x264-2.7.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 May 2022 07:04:44 GMT
Update against x264 Git, add 4K option, switch to app thread management default rather than set outside, adjust slow option. Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/221 Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/189

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 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 4K

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 601 public results since 28 May 2022 with the latest data as of 27 September 2022.

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 7773X 64-Core

99th

75.5 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

99th

74.5 ^{+/- 1.8}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

98th

73.6 ^{+/- 2.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

96th

69.5 ^{+/- 8.1}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

95th

66.6 ^{+/- 6.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

94th

65.3 ^{+/- 4.9}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

93rd

64.4 ^{+/- 7.0}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

93rd

64.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

92nd

63.3 ^{+/- 6.8}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

92nd

62.9 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

90th

61.4 ^{+/- 1.8}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

85th

57.4 ^{+/- 3.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

85th

56.3 ^{+/- 3.9}

Intel Core i9-12900K

81st

51.9 ^{+/- 1.4}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

78th

47.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

77th

45.3 ^{+/- 2.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

76th

44.7 ^{+/- 0.4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

76th

44.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 44.1

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

75th

43.0 ^{+/- 1.5}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

74th

42.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

72nd

38.2 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

71st

36.7 ^{+/- 3.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

71st

35.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-12600K

69th

34.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

66th

32.8 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i9-10900K

65th

32.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

65th

32.5 ^{+/- 0.9}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

62nd

31.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon Gold 6338N

62nd

31.4 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i9-11900K

62nd

31.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core

60th

30.5 ^{+/- 2.9}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

59th

28.8 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

58th

28.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

57th

27.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

56th

27.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

56th

26.7

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

54th

25.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

53rd

24.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

52nd

23.9 ^{+/- 1.9}

Intel Core i5-12400

52nd

23.8 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i9-9900K

51st

23.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

Median

50th

23.3

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

50th

22.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-11600K

49th

21.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

44th

20.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i5-10600K

44th

20.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

43rd

19.8 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Core i7-1280P

43rd

19.5 ^{+/- 2.4}

Intel Core i7-8700K

42nd

19.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

39th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

39th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.7}

Apple M1

36th

16.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

33rd

15.6 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

32nd

15.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

31st

14.4

Intel Core i7-10700T

29th

14.1

Intel Xeon W-3235

28th

14.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i3-10100

26th

12.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 12.3

Intel Core i7-1165G7

25th

12.3 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x Intel Xeon L5640

24th

12.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

23rd

12.1

Intel Core i7-7700

23rd

11.6 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i3-12100

22nd

11.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

20th

11.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

20th

10.9 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

17th

9.7

Intel Core i7-8565U

14th

8.7 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i3-7100

10th

6.1

Intel Core i7-8550U

8th

5.7

Intel Atom x6425RE

6th

3.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

5th

3.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (x264 2022-02-22 - Video 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 1.2%.

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.

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)

IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit

ppc64le

POWER9 16-Core

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1

test1 5 Systems - 58 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - Supermicro H12DSU-iN v1.01 - AMD Starship AlmaLinux 9.0 - 5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.9
almalinux9_optfan_throughtput 1 System - 53 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - Supermicro H12DSU-iN v1.01 - AMD Starship AlmaLinux 9.0 - 5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64 - GCC 11.2.1 20220127
xxx 1 System - 53 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - Supermicro H12DSU-iN v1.01 - AMD Starship AlmaLinux 9.0 - 5.14.0-70.22.1.el9_0.x86_64 - GCC 11.2.1 20220127
macmini02 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-4278U - Apple Mac-35C5E08120C7EEAF - Intel Haswell-ULT DRAM Debian 11 - 5.10.0-18-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.38.6
20220927 PCDW MacBook Air M1 16GB 1 System - 19 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple MacBook Air - 16GB macOS 12.6 - 21.6.0 - GCC 14.0.0 + Clang 14.0.0
5600x stock 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 5.19.11-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.25.5
Ryzen 9 5900X / Ryzen 9 5950X Linux Performance 13 Systems - 228 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Linux Benchmarks 4 Systems - 537 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
kontron-x264 1 System - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7E - Kontron Asia 3.5-SBC-TGL - Intel Device a0ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
vs-christian-2! 2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - ASUS PN50-E1 v0405 - AMD Renoir Arch Linux - 5.19.7-arch1-1 - GCC 12.2.0
vsbjoern 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 - MSI H97 GAMING 3 - 4 x 8192 MB 1600MHz Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19044 - 10.0.19044.2006 - 512.95
benchmark-vs-christian 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING - 2 x 16384 MB 2933MHz Kingston KHX2933C17D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19044 - 10.0.19044.2006 - 512.15
ryzen 7000 series extra 4 Systems - 361 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
terminaltest 14 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD G-T48E - Inventec D CLASS - AMD 14h Root Complex Debian 11 - 5.10.0-18-amd64 - 1.0.2

HP Dev One Pop!_OS 22.04 Linux Laptop Benchmarks 7 Systems - 293 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
2022-06-02-1407 Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i9-12900K - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Debian testing - 5.17.0-1-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.3
Fedora Linux -fno-omit-frame-pointer Performance Impact Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 36 - 5.18.6-200.fc36.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 42.2
3300X June 2022 Featured OpenGL Comparison	AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core - MSI B350M GAMING PRO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
10900K June Featured OpenGL Comparison	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.17.0-051700rc7daily20220309-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
Intel Core i7 1280P ADL-P Linux 5.19 Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i3-12100 - ASRock B660M-HDV - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
EPYC Milan-X Linux 5.19 Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc1daily20220607-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
Core i9 12900K Windows vs. Linux - Mid 2022 4 Systems - 103 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Clear Linux OS 36580 - 5.18.6-1159.native - GNOME Shell 42.2
epyc extra Featured Processor Comparison	AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc4daily20220628-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
5600G Ryzen AMD Linux 4 Systems - 171 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - Gigabyte A520M DS3H - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
2022-06-03-1754 1 System - 46 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Debian testing - 5.17.0-1-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.3
xeon june 2 Systems - 86 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Silver 4216 - TYAN S7100AG2NR - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Debian 11 - 5.10.0-10-amd64 - X Server
cascade lake summer 2022 3 Systems - 178 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4

x264

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

x264 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 4K

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

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