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 5 February 2023.

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 983 public results since 28 May 2022 with the latest data as of 6 February 2023.

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 5965WX 24-Cores

100th

77.0 ^{+/- 1.0}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

98th

75.0 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

98th

75.0 ^{+/- 1.0}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

98th

74.0 ^{+/- 3.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

97th

72.0 ^{+/- 6.0}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

94th

67.0 ^{+/- 7.0}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

93rd

65.0 ^{+/- 5.0}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

92nd

64.0 ^{+/- 7.0}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

92nd

64.0

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

91st

63.0 ^{+/- 7.0}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

90th

62.0 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

88th

61.0 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core

85th

59.6 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

84th

57.7 ^{+/- 3.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

83rd

57.4 ^{+/- 4.0}

Intel Core i7-13700KF

82nd

53.9 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i7-13700K

81st

53.0 ^{+/- 3.0}

Intel Core i9-12900K

78th

51.9 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

76th

48.1 ^{+/- 2.3}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 47.3

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

75th

47.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

74th

45.7 ^{+/- 2.5}

Intel Core i5-13600K

73rd

44.7 ^{+/- 1.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

73rd

44.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

72nd

43.7 ^{+/- 1.7}

Intel Core i7-12700K

71st

43.5 ^{+/- 1.3}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

69th

42.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

68th

41.1 ^{+/- 1.9}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

66th

38.2 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

66th

37.7 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

65th

36.8 ^{+/- 2.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

64th

35.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-12600K

63rd

34.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

60th

32.8 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

60th

32.7 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i9-10900K

60th

32.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

59th

32.6 ^{+/- 0.9}

Intel Core i5-13400

58th

31.8

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

57th

31.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon Gold 6338N

56th

31.4 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i9-11900K

56th

31.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

56th

30.9 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core

54th

28.7 ^{+/- 2.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

54th

28.5 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

53rd

28.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

53rd

27.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

51st

27.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

51st

26.7

Median

50th

26.6

Intel Core i7-10700K

50th

26.1 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

49th

25.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

48th

24.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

47th

24.2 ^{+/- 1.5}

Intel Core i5-12400

46th

23.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i9-9900K

46th

23.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

44th

22.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i5-11600K

43rd

21.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

42nd

21.3 ^{+/- 3.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

42nd

20.9 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

41st

20.5 ^{+/- 1.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

40th

20.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i5-10600K

40th

20.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

39th

19.8 ^{+/- 2.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

39th

19.8 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Core i7-8700K

38th

19.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

37th

18.7 ^{+/- 2.1}

Intel Core i7-5960X

35th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

30th

15.6 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

30th

15.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

29th

14.4

Intel Core i7-10700T

28th

14.1

Intel Xeon W-3235

27th

14.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Low-Tier

25th

< 12.9

Intel Core i3-10100

25th

12.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

24th

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

21st

11.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

20th

10.9 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i7-4770K

19th

10.5 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

18th

9.7

Intel Core i7-8565U

15th

8.6 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

14th

7.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i3-7100

11th

6.1

Intel Core i7-8550U

11th

6.1 ^{+/- 0.8}

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

POWER8E, POWER9 16-Core

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1, Apple M1 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 32-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core

x26420230131 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-58-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
phoronix 2 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X4 945 - Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H - 6144MB Calculate Linux Desktop 11.15 GNOME - 3.3.3-calculate - GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1
7702-encoding-test Featured Disk Comparison	4 x 2000GB Samsung SSD 870 + 0GB Virtual Floppy0 + 0GB Virtual Floppy1 + 0GB Virtual Floppy2 + 0GB Virtual Floppy3 + 0GB Virtual HDisk0 + 0GB Virtual HDisk1 + 0GB Virtual HDisk2 + 0GB Virtual HDisk3 - 4 x 2000GB Samsung SSD 870 + 0GB Virtual HDisk0 + 0GB Virtual HDisk1 + 0GB Virtual HDisk2 + 0GB Virtual HDisk3 + 0GB Virtual Floppy0 + 0GB Virtual Floppy1 + 0GB Virtual Floppy2 + 0GB Virtual Floppy3
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 - Supermicro X9SCI/X9SCA v1.01 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-20-amd64 - 1.0.2
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Huawei BC11HGSC0 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Debian GNU - 5.10.0-20-amd64 - 1.0.2
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 - Supermicro X10DRL-i v1.01 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-20-amd64 - 1.0.2
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2386G - ASRockRack E3C252D4U-2T/OVH v1.01 - Intel Device 43ef Debian 11 - 5.10.0-21-amd64 - 1.0.2
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2236 - Supermicro X11SCE-F v1.02 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Debian 11 - 5.10.0-20-amd64 - 1.0.2
cpu2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon D-1531 - Supermicro X10SDE-DF v1.01 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-20-amd64 - 1.0.2
Boost 2667 + GTX 1080 - Discovery 2667 + GTX 1080 - creator 2023-01-27-17-00 1 System - 127 Benchmark Results
cpu5 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.01 - AMD Starship Debian - 5.10.0-19-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
01 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-13700K - ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI - 2 x 32768 MB 5200MHz F5-5200J3636D32G Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.1194 - 31.0.101.4032
ptld-i7-4790-orig 1 System - 33 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-4790 - Dell 0N4YC8 - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
mbp_16 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i7-9750H - Apple MacBook Pro - 2 x 8 GB DDR4-2667MHz macOS 13.1 - 22.2.0 - GCC 14.0.0 + Clang 14.0.0
11-7-4 2 Systems - 1 Benchmark Result	Common KVM - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-58-generic - 1.2.204

AMD Ryzen 7900 Series Linux CPU Benchmarks 13 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
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
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
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
2022-06-02-1407 Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i9-12900T - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Debian testing - 5.17.0-1-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.3
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
Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Celeron G6900 - ASRock B660M-HDV - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
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
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
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 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
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
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
good tests 3 Systems - 114 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1

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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