FFmpeg

This is a benchmark of the FFmpeg multimedia framework. The FFmpeg test profile is making use of a modified version of vbench from Columbia University's Architecture and Design Lab (ARCADE) [http://arcade.cs.columbia.edu/vbench/] that is a benchmark for video-as-a-service workloads. The test profile offers the options of a range of vbench scenarios based on freely distributable video content and offers the options of using the x264 or x265 video encoders for transcoding.

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

Project Site

ffmpeg.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

5 April 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

4 Minutes, 4 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 20 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + Yasm Assembler + Nasm Assembler + Python + CMake

Accolades

400k+ 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 updated weekly as of 4 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/ffmpeg-7.0.1 [View Source] Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:20:54 GMT
Update against FFmpeg 7.0 upstream.

pts/ffmpeg-6.1.0 [View Source] Sat, 11 Nov 2023 08:41:20 GMT
Update against FFmpeg 6.1 upstream.

pts/ffmpeg-6.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:41:28 GMT
Update against FFmpeg 6.0 upstream release. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/702

pts/ffmpeg-3.0.0 [View Source] Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:36:37 GMT
Update to use vbench with x264 and x265 options, switch to latest FFmpeg 5.1.2 release, other improvements to make this test useful...

pts/ffmpeg-2.8.0 [View Source] Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:48:49 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 4.0.2

pts/ffmpeg-2.7.2 [View Source] Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:56:28 GMT
Use gmake on BSD to fix build, update download links too.

pts/ffmpeg-2.7.1 [View Source] Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:20:08 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/ffmpeg-2.7.0 [View Source] Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:15:00 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 3.4.1

pts/ffmpeg-2.6.0 [View Source] Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:54:05 GMT
Update against upstream FFMpeg 3.3.3.

pts/ffmpeg-2.5.0 [View Source] Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:17:44 GMT
Update against FFmpeg 2.8.1, also use --disable-doc on build process.

pts/ffmpeg-2.4.0 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:24:48 GMT
Update download links and update against upstream FFmpeg 2.6.2.

pts/ffmpeg-2.3.1 [View Source] Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:59:31 GMT
Update download links.

pts/ffmpeg-2.3.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:39:15 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 2.2.1 release.

pts/ffmpeg-2.2.0 [View Source] Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:42:37 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 2.0.

pts/ffmpeg-2.1.0 [View Source] Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:06:12 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 1.1 release.

pts/ffmpeg-2.0.0 [View Source] Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:20:54 GMT
Update ffmpeg test profile against upstream FFmpeg 1.0 application and switch to H.264 HD input file.

pts/ffmpeg-1.8.0 [View Source] Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:20:11 GMT
Update against upstream FFmpeg 0.10 release.

pts/ffmpeg-1.7.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:48:00 GMT
Update ffmpeg to upstream version 0.8.7

pts/ffmpeg-1.6.0 [View Source] Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:03:30 GMT
Update to upstream FFmpeg 0.8.2, require Yasm external dependency.

pts/ffmpeg-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:47:10 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Video Encoding

Encoding

Multi-Core

Creator Workloads

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

FFmpeg 7.0

Encoder: libx265 - Scenario: Video On Demand

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 610 public results since 5 April 2024 with the latest data as of 28 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

FPS (Average)

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

100th

82.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core

98th

79.4 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

98th

77.6 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core

96th

74.9 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

95th

74.7 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

93rd

72.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD EPYC 9655 96-Core

91st

72.0

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

91st

70.3

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

89th

68.4

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

87th

68.2 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

87th

67.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core

85th

66.8 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

85th

66.6 ^{+/- 5.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

85th

66.5 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

85th

66.5

Intel Core i9-14900K

82nd

66.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i9-13900K

81st

63.6

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

79th

62.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

79th

62.2

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

76th

60.4 ^{+/- 1.3}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 60.1

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

73rd

59.4

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

72nd

58.3 ^{+/- 3.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

71st

57.6 ^{+/- 1.1}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

69th

55.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-14600K

68th

55.6

AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

67th

55.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

66th

55.4 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

65th

54.8 ^{+/- 1.3}

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

63rd

54.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

63rd

54.3 ^{+/- 0.9}

Intel Core i5-13600K

63rd

54.0

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

61st

53.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Xeon 6980P

57th

52.3 ^{+/- 1.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

54th

50.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

54th

50.6

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

53rd

50.1 ^{+/- 1.1}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

52nd

49.9

2 x Intel Xeon 6980P

51st

49.2 ^{+/- 2.7}

Median

50th

49.1

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

50th

48.4 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Xeon Max 9480

48th

48.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-14500

48th

47.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

46th

47.4

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

46th

47.3

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

45th

47.2 ^{+/- 1.7}

Intel Xeon Max 9468

45th

47.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

44th

46.9 ^{+/- 6.5}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

44th

46.8

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

43rd

46.8 ^{+/- 5.7}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

43rd

46.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

43rd

46.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

42nd

46.2 ^{+/- 1.1}

Intel Core i5-14400F

40th

45.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

40th

45.6 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

40th

45.5 ^{+/- 1.1}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9468

39th

45.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-12600K

37th

44.7

Intel Core i5-13400

36th

43.9

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

35th

43.5

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

34th

42.8

Intel Core i3-14100

33rd

42.6

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

28th

36.1 ^{+/- 1.6}

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

28th

36.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Low-Tier

25th

< 33.2

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

25th

32.1

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

25th

31.8

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U

23rd

31.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

22nd

30.8 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i7-1280P

20th

29.7 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

20th

29.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

16th

28.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

14th

26.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

13th

26.8

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

12th

26.5

Intel Xeon E E-2488

9th

23.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

8th

22.9 ^{+/- 2.0}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

5th

18.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

4th

17.8

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

3rd

13.5

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (FFmpeg 7.0 - Encoder: libx265 - Scenario: Video On Demand) has an average run-time of 10 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.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not 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

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A78E 12-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, AmpereOne 192-Core, AmpereOne 72-Core

USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N150 - AZW EQ - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-28-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N150 - AZW EQ - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-28-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N97 - HARDKERNEL ODROID-H4 v1.0 - Intel Device 54ef Debian 12 - 6.1.0-20-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE - HP 872C - AMD Renoir Debian 12 - 6.1.0-26-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 18 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N100 - GMKtec - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel N100 - (5.27 BIOS) - Intel Alder Lake-N PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-23-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE - HP 872C - AMD Renoir Debian 12 - 6.1.0-26-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
USFF-Test 17 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX - AZW EQ - AMD 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex Debian 12 - 6.1.0-25-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
h2 3 Systems - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.11.10-273-tkg-bore-llvm - KDE Plasma
ffmpeg.live.1 2 Systems - 20 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Device 14e8 NobaraLinux 40 - 6.11.9-200.fsync.fc40.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 6.2.2
ffmpeg.live.1 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - Shenzhen Meigao Electronic Equipment EliteMini HPBSD v1.0 - AMD Device 14e8 NobaraLinux 40 - 6.11.9-200.fsync.fc40.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 6.2.2
h2 2 Systems - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.11.10-273-tkg-bore-llvm - KDE Plasma
h2 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING - AMD Starship EndeavourOS rolling - 6.10.6-273-tkg-bore - Sway

Linux - Intel Meteor Lake vs. AMD Zen 4 Laptop Benchmarks 3 Systems - 413 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Intel and AMD Desktop CPUs Mid 2024 Linux Benchmarks 18 Systems - 442 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 24.04 vs. Fedora 40 Performance 4 Systems - 78 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.8-300.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
2021-09-09-1229 73 Systems - 527 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 - Intel S2600CW - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Arch Linux - 6.9.7-arch1-1 - GCC 14.1.1 20240522
Intel Baseline Profile Linux Performance 2 Systems - 307 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc3daily20240410-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
x264 ffmpeg xeon a 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3
ffmpeg x265 epyc 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.1-060801-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
ff 4 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc1daily20240327-generic - GCC 13.2.0
Desktop Mid 2024 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
ddg Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
ne 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - NB05 TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen3 R14FA1 - AMD Device 14e8 Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.5.0-10027-tuxedo - KDE Plasma 5.27.10
epyc fr 2 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 - AMD 17h Debian 12 - 6.1.0-10-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
Clear Linux 41680 2 Systems - 137 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Clear Linux OS 41680 - 6.8.9-1432.native - GNOME Shell 46.1
Linux 6.9 Intel Meteor Lake Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.9.0-060900rc5daily20240426-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
ffmpeg x265 updates 4 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3

FFmpeg

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

Performance Metrics

FFmpeg 7.0

Encoder: libx265 - Scenario: Video On Demand

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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