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Handbrake Media Encoding
I like media encoding benchmarks for several reasons. One, most of them are “real world” benchmarks rather than synthetic benchmarks that are only good for comparison with other scores from the same benchmark. Second, media encoding is one of the very few things that can really use all the threads and horsepower a modern CPU can provide. Unless you’re upgrading from a really old machine, that spiffy new CPU won’t play your games any faster, nor make your web browsing any smoother. But when you’re ripping that DVD to watch on your phone or tablet, then yeah, nobody ever said their transcoding was too fast.
For this test I used Handbrake 0.96 to transcode a standard-definition episode of Family Guy to the “iPhone & iPod Touch” presets, and recorded the total time (in seconds) it took to transcode the video.
Again, more cores means more performance, with the stock-clocked 5960X taking a full 33 seconds less time to transcode the episode than the 4770K. Overclocking yields the first sub-1-minute score I’ve ever recorded for this benchmark.
x264 HD Benchmark 5.0
With version 5.0, TechArp’s x264HD Benchmark finally integrates AVX instructions into the main code branch. Previously, there were separate versions of this benchmark that used XOP and AVX instructions; now, they’re integrated and will be used if your CPU supports them. Of course this means that the results from the new benchmark can’t be directly compared to results from the old benchmark, but that’s the price of progress. An added benefit is that the new version runs in full 64-bit mode.
x264 HD 5.0 encodes a 1080p video segment into a high quality x264 format.
Again: more cores = more performance. There’s a 60% boost moving from the 4770K to the 5960X.
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