x265

This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with 1080p and 4K options for H.265 video encode performance with x265.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark x265.

Project Site

x265.org

Test Created

28 July 2018

Last Updated

16 October 2020

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

2 Minutes, 46 Seconds

Average Run Time

4 Minutes, 11 Seconds

Test Dependencies

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

Accolades

40k+ Downloads

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 16 June 2021.

Revision History

pts/x265-1.3.0 [View Source] Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:48:37 GMT
Update against x265 3.4 upstream, add 1080p/4K video option input.

pts/x265-1.2.0 [View Source] Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:43:32 GMT
Update against upstream per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/99

pts/x265-1.1.0 [View Source] Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:47:16 GMT
Update against x265 v3.0, also fixes building on POWER9.

pts/x265-1.0.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:09:00 GMT
Finally got around to uploading this x265 video encode test profile.

Suites Using This Test

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Video Encoding

Encoding

Multi-Core

Common Workstation Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

x265 3.4

Video Input: Bosphorus 4K

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,493 public results since 16 October 2020 with the latest data as of 16 June 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 75F3 32-Core

100th

31.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

100th

31.2

AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

100th

30.1 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

100th

30.0 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

98th

29.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

98th

29.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

97th

28.7 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

96th

28.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

93rd

27.1 ^{+/- 1.5}

2 x AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core

92nd

27.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7443 24-Core

91st

26.3 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

89th

25.7 ^{+/- 0.9}

2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

87th

25.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

87th

25.2 ^{+/- 0.9}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

86th

25.0 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

86th

25.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

85th

24.9 ^{+/- 1.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

84th

24.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x AMD EPYC 7663 56-Core

83rd

24.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

83rd

24.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core

83rd

24.6 ^{+/- 2.2}

AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core

82nd

24.3 ^{+/- 1.1}

AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core

82nd

24.1 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core

81st

24.1 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core

80th

24.0 ^{+/- 1.2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

80th

23.9 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

78th

23.6

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

76th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.7}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 23.2

2 x AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core

75th

23.0 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

73rd

22.7 ^{+/- 1.7}

AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

73rd

22.5 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core

73rd

22.5 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

71st

21.9 ^{+/- 1.6}

Intel Core i9-7960X

71st

21.9

AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core

71st

21.7

Intel Core i9-10980XE

68th

21.0 ^{+/- 2.5}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

68th

21.0 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

68th

20.9 ^{+/- 2.1}

Intel Core i9-7980XE

68th

20.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon Gold 5218R

65th

20.1

AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core

65th

20.1

2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

64th

19.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

64th

19.9 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

63rd

19.8 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

63rd

19.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

63rd

19.7 ^{+/- 1.5}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

62nd

19.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

61st

19.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

60th

19.2 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core i9-10900K

57th

18.6 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core

54th

16.6 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

53rd

16.1 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core i9-11900K

52nd

15.5 ^{+/- 0.4}

Median

50th

15.2

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

50th

15.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

50th

15.1

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

49th

14.9 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

49th

14.7 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

47th

14.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

46th

13.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

45th

13.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-9900K

44th

13.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

44th

12.8 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i5-11600K

44th

12.8 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Core i5-10600K

42nd

12.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

42nd

12.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-8086K

41st

12.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G

41st

12.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

41st

12.0 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core

40th

11.9 ^{+/- 1.1}

Intel Core i7-8700K

40th

11.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

40th

11.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

39th

11.6 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core

38th

11.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core

36th

10.3 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

36th

10.3 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

35th

10.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core

33rd

9.0 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-8400

33rd

8.9

Intel Core i5-9400F

33rd

8.9

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

33rd

8.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core

33rd

8.8

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

32nd

8.8 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i7-6800K

32nd

8.8 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

32nd

8.7

Intel Core i7-9750H

32nd

8.6 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core i7-7700K

31st

8.5

Intel Core i7-7740K

31st

8.4

Intel Core i7-5960X

30th

8.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

29th

8.3

Intel Xeon Gold 5217

29th

8.3 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

29th

8.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

29th

8.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

28th

8.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-10700T

28th

7.8 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

28th

7.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core

27th

7.8

Intel Core i3-10100

27th

7.6

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

27th

7.5

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

26th

7.4

Low-Tier

25th

< 7.3

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U

25th

7.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

25th

7.0 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

24th

6.9

Intel Core i5-7600K

24th

6.9

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

24th

6.9

Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5

24th

6.8 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i3-8100

23rd

6.7

Intel Core i7-9700TE

23rd

6.6

Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6

22nd

6.5

Intel Core i7-4790K

22nd

6.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i7-4960X

22nd

6.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

22nd

6.4

POWER9 44-Core

21st

6.2

Intel Core i7-5775C

20th

6.1

Intel Core i5-6500

20th

6.1

Intel Core i5-4690K

19th

6.1 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i7-4770K

18th

5.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-4670

18th

5.8

Intel Core i7-6700HQ

17th

5.7

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218R

17th

5.7 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

16th

5.4 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

16th

5.3

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

15th

5.1

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

14th

5.1

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

13th

4.7 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core

13th

4.6

Intel Core i3-7100

12th

4.5

Intel Core i7-1065G7

12th

4.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

12th

4.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-3770K

11th

4.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

11th

4.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

10th

3.6

Intel Core i5-3470

9th

3.4

Intel Core i7-2700K

9th

3.4

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 8-Core

9th

3.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Pentium G4560

8th

3.0

Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx

7th

2.8 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i3-4130

7th

2.8

AMD A10-7850K APU

6th

2.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

6th

2.6

POWER9 4-Core

3rd

1.3

Intel Pentium E5200

2nd

0.7

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (x265 3.4 - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K) has an average run-time of 4 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 0.7%.

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.

x265-desktop 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-4690K - MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Fedora 34 - 5.12.9-300.fc34.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.22.0
test0 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 - FUJITSU D3348-B2 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - MATE 1.24.0
ryzen 1 System - 86 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - Intel 440BX - Intel 440BX Arch rolling - 5.12.10-arch1-1 - X Server 1.20.9
moodle 17 Systems - 90 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7200U - HP 822C - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 ManjaroLinux 18.1.0 - 5.3.4-1-MANJARO - Cinnamon 4.2.4
xunil-5900X 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.1-051201-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
super-cpu-benchmark 1 System - 23 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 - Supermicro X10DRi-LN4+ v1.01 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-18-generic - 1.0.2
server-cpus-june-2021 1 System - 372 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - X Server 1.20.11
single 12 Systems - 214 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc4-generic - X Server 1.20.11
test10101 1 System - 24 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6300U - LENOVO 20FAS14J01 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.6.9-050609-generic - X Server 1.20.9
Compiler Optimization Levels 2 Systems - 118 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Tiger Lake-H Fedora 34 - 5.12.9-300.fc34.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.1
stock 2 Systems - 3 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO V2 - AMD Starship Linuxmint 20.1 - 5.8.0-53-generic - Cinnamon 4.8.6
multicore-40c-dedicated 1 System - 240 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon - OpenStack Foundation Nova v21.0.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - GCC 9.3.0

Ryzen 9 5900X / Ryzen 9 5950X Linux Performance 11 Systems - 217 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Xeon E 8 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2288G - Compulab SBC-ATCFL v1.2 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Ubuntu 20.10 Kernels AMD Zen 3 6 Systems - 143 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.10.7-xanmod1 - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
TPL14_CPU 3 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U - LENOVO 20U6S1SD00 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Arch rolling - 5.10.16-zen1-1-zen - GNOME Shell 3.38.3
Ryzen 5 5600X Linux Performance 12 Systems - 229 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
4650G-Gentoo 5 Systems - 75 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G - ASUS TUF X470-PLUS GAMING - AMD Renoir Root Complex Gentoo - 5.11.8-gentoo-r1 - GCC 10.2.0
10700T openSUSE 2 Systems - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH openSUSE 15.2 - 5.3.18-lp152.63-default - KDE Plasma 5.18.6
h265 icelake 3 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Device 34ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201003-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Linux 5.11 Feb 2021 Rafael Patch Test Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc6-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
3800XT october 3 Systems - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201003-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Ryzen Monitoring 6 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
5900X LInux 5.12 Test 2 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.12.0-051200rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1

x265

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

x265 3.4

Video Input: Bosphorus 4K

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