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.

The Intel Core i7-7700K Review - Kaby Lake and 14nm+ - Processors 9


 
The Core i7-7700K is just SLIGHTLY faster than the 6700K here, but only by 2% or so.

 

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.

The Intel Core i7-7700K Review - Kaby Lake and 14nm+ - Processors 10

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

The first pass results show the 7700K and 6700K running dead even, though the second pass (that is more multi-threaded) is about 4.5% faster on the new Kaby Lake CPU.
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