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 833 public results since 5 April 2024 with the latest data as of 12 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}

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

78th

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

73rd

33.2 ^{+/- 2.3}

Intel Core i9-14900K

73rd

33.1 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core

70th

32.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

69th

32.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-13900K

69th

31.9

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

68th

31.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core

66th

31.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9965 192-Core

65th

31.3 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

65th

31.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

65th

31.0 ^{+/- 1.4}

Intel Xeon Max 9480

64th

30.8 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x Intel Xeon 6980P

64th

30.6 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

62nd

30.2 ^{+/- 1.3}

Intel Xeon Gold 6421N

61st

29.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

60th

29.1 ^{+/- 2.0}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

59th

28.9

Intel Xeon Max 9468

58th

28.4 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

58th

28.1

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

57th

28.1 ^{+/- 1.3}

Intel Xeon Gold 6414U

56th

27.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

55th

27.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

54th

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

53rd

26.7 ^{+/- 3.2}

Intel Core i5-14600K

52nd

25.6

Median

50th

24.9

Intel Core i5-13600K

50th

24.8

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

50th

24.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core

49th

23.6 ^{+/- 0.3}

2 x AMD EPYC 7303 16-Core

48th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

48th

23.3 ^{+/- 1.4}

Intel Xeon 6780E

46th

21.3

Intel Core i9-10980XE

45th

21.1 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core

45th

20.5 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Xeon 6766E

44th

20.2

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

43rd

20.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

41st

19.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

41st

19.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

40th

19.1 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i5-14500

40th

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

36th

18.0 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

35th

17.7 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

35th

17.4

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

33rd

17.2 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

32nd

17.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

32nd

17.0

Intel Core i5-13400

31st

16.9

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

31st

16.8 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

30th

16.6 ^{+/- 1.4}

AmpereOne 192-Core

30th

16.5 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i5-14400F

28th

16.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

28th

16.0 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

26th

15.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-12600K

26th

15.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

Low-Tier

25th

< 14.9

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

25th

14.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

24th

14.1 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

22nd

13.0

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

20th

12.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

20th

12.8 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

19th

12.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

18th

12.0 ^{+/- 1.8}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

18th

11.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i3-14100

17th

11.5

Intel Core i7-1280P

16th

11.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS

15th

10.5 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U

14th

10.4

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

14th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

12th

9.7 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

12th

9.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

11th

9.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

10th

8.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

9th

7.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W 0

8th

7.3

Intel Core i7-1165G7

7th

6.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

6th

6.6 ^{+/- 0.4}

Intel Core i7-8565U

5th

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.

ux303 9 Systems - 219 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-5200U - ASUS UX303LB v1.0 - Intel Broadwell-U-OPI Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
rog-g14 Featured Screen Resolution Comparison	3840x1080 - 1920x1080
nas 1 System - 91 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - ASRock B550M Pro4 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
45 1 System - 97 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - Gigabyte B450 AORUS M - AMD Starship ManjaroLinux 24.1.2 - 6.6.59-1-MANJARO - KDE Plasma 6.2.3
fixe 7 Systems - 189 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
fixe 6 Systems - 189 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
fixe 5 Systems - 189 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
fixe 4 Systems - 189 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
2024-11-08-1319 1 System - 170 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME X670-P - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.10 - 6.11.0-9-generic - KDE Plasma 6.1.5
ryzen-5650u 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U - HP 8895 - AMD Renoir Debian 12 - 6.1.0-25-amd64 - GCC 12.2.0
cputest 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Fedora 41 - 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 6.2.2
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux CPU Benchmarks 33 Systems - 367 Benchmark Results
jhls-lt-3-dvd-cpu 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	Loongson-3A5000 - Loongson LM-LS3A5000-7A1000-1w-V01-pc_A2101 v1.0 - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge JHLS-LT 3.0 - 4.19.190-7.9.lt3.loongarch64 - GNOME Shell 40.10
kubuntu-2404-nvme 2 Systems - 541 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 - Broadcom BCM2712 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1012-raspi - KDE Plasma 5.27.11
core-2-duo-2666-mhz-e6700 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Core 2 6700 - ASUS P5PE-VM - Intel 82865G Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.21.1.7

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