Media Encoding Tests

Handbrake


Known mainly for its DVD re-encoding prowess, our test uses the Handbrake command line interface on a full DVD rip to gauge CPU performance.

Ivy Bridge-E: Intel Core i7-4960X Processor Review - Processors 9



The Core i7-4960X is definitely the fastest CPU in our test here but only beats the Core i7-4770K by about 9%.

 

x264 HD Benchmark


The popular x264 benchmark available from graysky does a two-pass H.264 encode on 1080p video.  The first pass appears to be more clock-sensitive while the second pass is more heavily threaded.

Ivy Bridge-E: Intel Core i7-4960X Processor Review - Processors 10

(Screenshot shows 720p testing from v4.0, we are using 1080p on v5.0)

The first pass results of x264 v5.0 show a sizeable increase in frame rate (35%) and a nice jump over the SNB-E result as well (12%).  The second pass also has the 4960X with the advantage but it shrinks a bit to just 24% over Haswell.

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