x264 Benchmark

[graysky]

Updated the Intel table. It now contains several Yorkfield ES chips including:

Xeon E5330 (Dual board)
Q9550
Q9350

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by graysky

Updated the Intel table. It now contains several Yorkfield ES chips including:

Xeon E5330 (Dual board)
Q9550
Q9350

We are going to send news out on that.

[Dashken]

graysky had just updated the Intel performance table. It now contains several quad-core Yorkfield ES chips including Xeon E5330 (Dual CPU - 8 cores), Q9550 and Q9350.

The x264 benchmark measures how fast your machine can encode a short, DVD quality MPEG-2 video clip into a high-quality x264 video clip. It will give you results in FPS that can be used to compare the performance of different CPUs and different CPU settings.

Here's a quote from the article :-

"What's x264, you ask? It's more or less the next-generation Xvid/DivX codec. I think it's ideal for a benchmark because the application (x264.exe) reports fairly accurate compression results (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encoding process, and it uses multi-core processors very efficiently."

Link : x264 Benchmark Results Updated

[graysky]

Updated the tables with another 45 nm chip: the QX9650 -- both at stock levels and @ overclocked to 4.2 GHz! With it, and the others (Xeon E5330 (Dual board), Q9550, and Q9350) there is now data on 4 different 45 nm chips.

One thing that I found striking about these new chips is that they are only marginally faster than their 65 nm counterparts when encoding x264 (about 5-6 % faster with all other factors being equal or close to equal). Have a look at the general trends table for the Kentsfield vs. Yorkfield comparison at the official host.

[learners permit]

RD 600
E6850@423X9
2X1 gig SYNC 4,4,4,14
Win XP32 home







---------- RUN1PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 105.60 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 106.41 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 105.70 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 106.10 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 106.20 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN1PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 26.29 fps, 1826.37 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 26.47 fps, 1826.37 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 26.43 fps, 1826.37 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 26.34 fps, 1826.38 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 26.33 fps, 1826.37 kb/s

[Mac Daddy]

Hey guys tried this out and maybe I am missing something or its too early and I haven't had enough Java yet


I copied the file DGDecode.dll to the C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins directory as indicated in the instructions. I run the program and enter the file name when prompted but when I hit enter the screen just closes.

Running XP Pro SP2 any ideas ?

[graysky]

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

Hey guys tried this out and maybe I am missing something or its too early and I haven't had enough Java yet


I copied the file DGDecode.dll to the C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins directory as indicated in the instructions. I run the program and enter the file name when prompted but when I hit enter the screen just closes.

Running XP Pro SP2 any ideas ?

There is a FAQ... see the first question. I'm guessing your not running it from c:\work2

Tech ARP - x264 Benchmark

[Russianblue]

not too bad if i do say so myself. still better than some of the newer entry level Intel chips!

XP Pro SP2
X2 4400+ @ 2650 @ 1.5v
2GB Mushkin Redline 99142 @ 265x10 w/ 3-3-2-8 2T @ 2.7v


---------- RUN1PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 69.87 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 70.35 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 70.71 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 70.93 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 70.75 fps, 1850.89 kb/s

---------- RUN1PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 16.91 fps, 1826.38 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 17.14 fps, 1826.20 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 17.27 fps, 1826.38 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 17.30 fps, 1826.38 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 17.27 fps, 1826.37 kb/s

[Mac Daddy]

Originally Posted by graysky

There is a FAQ... see the first question. I'm guessing your not running it from c:\work2

Tech ARP - x264 Benchmark

Ahh OK will give that a try THX for the feedback


EDIT: That worked like a charm now just need to find time to run it

[Mac Daddy]

Well ran this dead stock for reference on this old Prescott 2.8 (21x133) let it run after I went to bed. The numbers I am sure won't impress anyone but like the test. I will set things back up the way I normally run and run it again tonight if I get a chance

---------- RUN1PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 15.83 fps, 1854.10 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 15.92 fps, 1854.10 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 16.05 fps, 1854.10 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 15.83 fps, 1854.10 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS1.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 15.99 fps, 1854.10 kb/s

---------- RUN1PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 3.39 fps, 1825.89 kb/s

---------- RUN2PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 3.36 fps, 1825.89 kb/s

---------- RUN3PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 3.39 fps, 1825.89 kb/s

---------- RUN4PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 3.38 fps, 1825.89 kb/s

---------- RUN5PASS2.LOG
encoded 1749 frames, 3.35 fps, 1825.89 kb/s