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

2 Minutes, 1 Second

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 11 Seconds

Test Dependencies

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

Accolades

400k+ Downloads + 20k+ 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 updated weekly as of 20 December 2024.

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

Video Encoding

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Encoding

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

x264 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 2,274 public results since 28 May 2022 with the latest data as of 18 December 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 Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

100th

320 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

100th

299 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX 24-Cores

99th

291 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

99th

285 ^{+/- 18}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

96th

260 ^{+/- 14}

Intel Core i9-14900K

95th

250 ^{+/- 28}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX 64-Cores

95th

250 ^{+/- 17}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

95th

249 ^{+/- 27}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

95th

248 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core i9-13900K

95th

247 ^{+/- 16}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

94th

244 ^{+/- 23}

2 x INTEL XEON GOLD 6548Y

94th

237 ^{+/- 27}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

94th

235 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

94th

235 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Core i7-13700KF

91st

221 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

90th

216 ^{+/- 32}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

89th

215 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i7-13700K

89th

214 ^{+/- 21}

Intel Core i9-12900K

89th

211 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

87th

208 ^{+/- 7}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

86th

204 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i5-14600K

86th

198 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

85th

195 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-13600K

84th

190 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

84th

189 ^{+/- 11}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

84th

188 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

83rd

185 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

82nd

182 ^{+/- 27}

AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core

82nd

181 ^{+/- 22}

Intel Core i7-12700K

81st

180 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

81st

180 ^{+/- 6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

81st

180 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

80th

177 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

80th

173 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

79th

169 ^{+/- 5}

AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core

78th

168 ^{+/- 19}

Intel Core i5-14500

77th

160

AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core

77th

159 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

76th

158 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

76th

155 ^{+/- 3}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 153

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

75th

151 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

75th

149 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

74th

147 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i5-12600K

73rd

143 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

73rd

143 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

72nd

141 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

71st

140 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i9-10900K

70th

138 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

70th

137 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

69th

135 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-13400

68th

134

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

68th

133 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

68th

132 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i9-11900K

67th

131 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

67th

128 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

67th

127 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

66th

125

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core

65th

123 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-12700H

65th

123 ^{+/- 15}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

65th

123 ^{+/- 6}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

65th

122 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

64th

119 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

64th

118 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

63rd

116 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

63rd

116 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

63rd

115

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

62nd

114 ^{+/- 11}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

58th

110 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

58th

110 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-10700K

58th

110 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core

58th

109

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

57th

108 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

57th

108

Intel Core i9-9900K

57th

108 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

56th

105 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E-2278G

56th

105 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

56th

105 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

55th

102 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i5-11600K

55th

101 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core

54th

100 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i5-12400

54th

100 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

53rd

99 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Gold 6338N

52nd

98 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS

51st

96 ^{+/- 10}

Median

50th

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

50th

94 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

50th

94 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

49th

90 ^{+/- 5}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 0

48th

88 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

48th

87 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

47th

85 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-10600K

46th

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

45th

80 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

44th

79 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core

44th

78 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-14100

44th

Intel Core i7-8700K

44th

77 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-10700T

42nd

73 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core

42nd

AMD Ryzen 5 4600G

42nd

73 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

42nd

72 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

42nd

72 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

41st

71 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

41st

71 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

39th

67 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

38th

64 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon W-3235

36th

61 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-12100

36th

61 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

36th

61 ^{+/- 2}

2 x AMD Opteron 6276

34th

AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core

33rd

56 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

32nd

53 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i3-10100

32nd

52 ^{+/- 1}

Apple M1 Pro

31st

51 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-7700

30th

50 ^{+/- 2}

2 x Intel Xeon L5640

30th

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

28th

46 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

28th

46 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-4790K

28th

45 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i7-3930K

27th

44 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-4790

26th

42 ^{+/- 1}

Low-Tier

25th

< 42

Intel Core i7-8750H

25th

41 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

25th

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

24th

39 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8565U

23rd

38 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-3770

21st

33 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

21st

AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core

19th

31 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-2600

19th

30 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-6600K

18th

29 ^{+/- 1}

Intel N97

18th

28 ^{+/- 2}

Intel N100

17th

26 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i3-7100

16th

25 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-7300U

13th

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

13th

21 ^{+/- 1}

9th

9th

8th

6th

10 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Embedded G GX-420GI Radeon R7E

5th

8 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Atom x5-Z8350

3rd

Detailed Performance Overview

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

POWER8E, POWER9 16-Core

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000-HV, Loongson-3A6000-HV

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686

(Many Processors)

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A7 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1, Apple M1 Max, Apple M1 Pro, Apple M3 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A57, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 32-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, ARMv8 rev 0, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, AmpereOne 192-Core, Apple, Apple M1, Phytium FT-E2000, Qualcomm, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

UC Hypervisor Benchmark 1 System - 11 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6248R - OpenStack Foundation Nova v20.6.1 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-91-generic - 1.3.255
custom-benchmark-test 1 System - 11 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6248R - OpenStack Foundation Nova v20.6.1 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-91-generic - 1.3.255
UC Hypervisor Benchmark 1 System - 11 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6248R - OpenStack Foundation Nova v20.6.1 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-91-generic - 1.3.255
Compare kde plasma distros 1 System - 131 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - Intel Alder Lake PCH openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241204 - 6.11.8-1-default - KDE Plasma 6.2.4
9700x 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE - 2 x 32768MB 6000MHz G Skill F5-6000J3040G32G Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.4460 - 566.03
yrdyr-x264-4k-1080 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-lowlatency - GCC 13.2.0
Testovi 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE - 2 x 32768MB 6000MHz F5-6000J3040G32G Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.4460 - 566.03
teste-x264-1080p 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-lowlatency - GCC 13.2.0
ampere_altra_Q80-30 1 System - 21 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE MP32-AR1-00 v01010101 - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Debian 12 - 6.1.0-26-arm64 - GCC 12.2.0
CPU_GPU_Benchmark 2 Systems - 24 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 - NVIDIA Jetson - 62GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.148-tegra - GNOME Shell 42.9
ampere_altra_Q80-30 1 System - 16 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - GIGABYTE MP32-AR1-00 v01010101 - Ampere Computing LLC Altra PCI Root Complex A Debian 12 - 6.1.0-26-arm64 - GCC 12.2.0
dell 3 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5 650 - Dell 0XC7MM - Intel Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.15.0-23-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.1
r-cpu 2 Systems - 37 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - Giga Computing MZ73-LM0-000 v02000200 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GCC 13.2.0
r-cpu 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - Giga Computing MZ73-LM0-000 v02000200 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GCC 13.2.0
run4 1 System - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900H - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Debian 12 - 6.1.0-27-amd64 - GNOME Shell 43.9

x264

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

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Suites Using This Test

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x264 2022-02-22

Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

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