x265 Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org

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.

Performance Metrics

x265 3.6

Video Input: Bosphorus 4K

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 858 public results since 5 April 2024 with the latest data as of 26 November 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)

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

100th

40.3 ^{+/- 1.1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y

99th

40.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core

98th

40.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

98th

39.8 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

98th

39.8 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

93rd

38.7 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

92nd

38.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core

92nd

38.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

90th

38.0 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y

88th

37.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9575F 64-Core

86th

36.8 ^{+/- 1.2}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

86th

36.5 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD EPYC 9655 96-Core

84th

36.0 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8468

84th

36.0 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

83rd

35.9 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y

82nd

35.8 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8471N

80th

35.6

2 x AMD EPYC 9655 96-Core

80th

35.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y

79th

35.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Xeon 6980P

77th

34.7 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

77th

34.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core

76th

34.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 34.2

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

74th

33.2 ^{+/- 2.3}

Intel Core i9-14900K

74th

33.1 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core

71st

32.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

70th

32.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-13900K

69th

31.9

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

69th

31.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core

67th

31.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core

66th

31.3 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

66th

31.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

65th

31.0 ^{+/- 1.4}

Intel Xeon Max 9480

65th

30.8 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x Intel Xeon 6980P

64th

30.6 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

63rd

30.2 ^{+/- 1.3}

Intel Xeon Gold 6421N

62nd

29.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

61st

29.1 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

60th

28.9

Intel Xeon Max 9468

59th

28.4 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

58th

28.1

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

58th

28.1 ^{+/- 1.3}

Intel Xeon Gold 6414U

57th

27.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

56th

27.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

55th

27.1

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9468

54th

26.9 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

54th

26.8 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

54th

26.7 ^{+/- 3.2}

Intel Core i5-14600K

53rd

25.6

Intel Core i5-13600K

51st

24.8

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

51st

24.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Median

50th

24.4

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

49th

23.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7303 16-Core

49th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

49th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.4}

Intel Xeon 6780E

46th

21.3

Intel Core i9-10980XE

46th

21.1 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core

45th

20.5 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Xeon 6766E

45th

20.2

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

44th

20.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

42nd

19.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

42nd

19.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

41st

19.1 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i5-14500

41st

19.0 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

39th

18.7

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

38th

18.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

37th

18.0 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

36th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

36th

17.4

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

34th

17.2 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

33rd

17.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

33rd

17.0

Intel Core i5-13400

32nd

16.9

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

32nd

16.8 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

31st

16.6 ^{+/- 1.4}

AmpereOne 192-Core

31st

16.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i5-14400F

29th

16.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

29th

16.0 ^{+/- 0.7}

Apple M4

28th

15.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

27th

15.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-12600K

26th

15.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

26th

14.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 14.7

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

25th

14.1 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

22nd

13.0

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

21st

12.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

21st

12.8 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

19th

12.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

19th

12.0 ^{+/- 1.8}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

18th

11.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i3-14100

18th

11.5

Intel Core i7-1280P

17th

11.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS

16th

10.5 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U

15th

10.4

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

14th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

13th

9.7 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

13th

9.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

12th

9.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

11th

8.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

10th

7.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 0

9th

7.3

Intel Core i7-1165G7

7th

6.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

7th

6.6 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-8565U

6th

5.2

Intel Core i5-5200U

3rd

2.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (x265 3.6 - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K) 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 0.5%.

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.

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.

core-duo-T2600 1 System - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Duo T2600 - PhoenixAward 945GM v6.0 - Intel Mobile 945GSE MCH + ICH7-M Debian 12 - 6.1.0-27-686 - GCC 12.2.0
elitebook-850-g5 2 Systems - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-8350U - HP EliteBook 850 G5 83B2 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
elitebook-850-g5 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-8350U - HP EliteBook 850 G5 83B2 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
202411201727 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Phytium FT-E2000/Little - anntec.cn S-E2004 - 1 x 4096 MB DDR4-2400MT Kylin v10 - 5.4.18-63.52-e2000-rc17-20230601-generic - Openbox 3.6.1
core-u7-258V 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 258V - ASUS UX5406SA v1.0 - Intel Device a87f Debian 12 - 6.1.0-27-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
2411177-NE-TESTFREEB10 3 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - MACHINIST X99 PR9 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Arch Linux - 6.11.8-arch1-2 - Xfce 4.18
test-freebsd-stress-ng-ultimate 3 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - MACHINIST X99 PR9 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Xfce 4.18
test-freebsd-stress-ng-ultimate 2 Systems - 87 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - MACHINIST X99 PR9 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Xfce 4.18
test-freebsd-stress-ng-ultimate 7 Systems - 87 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - 32GB - 932GB NetBSD 10.0 - 10.0 - Xfce 4.18
test-freebsd-stress-ng-ultimate 3 Systems - 87 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - 32GB - 932GB NetBSD 10.0 - 10.0 - Xfce 4.18
freebsd-x-openbsd-x-ubuntu 1 System - 79 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 - MACHINIST X99 PR9 - Intel Xeon E7 v4 FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Xfce 4.18
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