The Hexus HandBrake 0.9.6 charts - who has the greatest multi-threaded POWER!!??

[Ross1]

Understandable, but would you find it a useful indicator of what a CPU could do with something that *does* make good use of avisynth? In other words, is it a useful benchmark to you.

Obviously your avisynth script will vary depending on the source. Deinterlacing and decimation are incredibly common. Something like:
QTGMC( Preset="Slow" )
would be interesting on sources that need it, of course none of the ones in the OP do. Spline36resize could have been used regardless, and how speed is affected when you scale up or down would also have some merit.

As for x264 itself, a fairly standard line would be:
--level 4.1 --preset slow --tune film --crf 18.0

Note that for the benchmarks you are using the same presets for all 3 clips, even the last one thats animation.... it should have completely different settings than live action.

[DanceswithUnix]

AMD 955BE 3.2GHz
8GB DDR2 PC6400
Win 7 Pro 64bit

High
BBB: 11.67
Splice: 8.42
Tron: 12.32

Normal
BBB: 44.43
Splice: 34.39
Tron: 45.23

[Kumagoro]

Cheers Dances for benching the E350. I was hoping it would be a smidge quicker than that in comparison to the other 32bit results

[Golden Dragoon]

Did a little test of quality 0.9.5 v 0.9.6 using the tron file and there seems to be no difference, the file sizes were almost the same at 85.6mb (89,856,291 bytes) for 0.9.6 and 85.5mb (89,690,605 bytes) for 0.9.5 and the slight difference could be down to me naming them differently, anyway, a shed load of results are incoming from me shortly, stay tuned.

[Golden Dragoon]

PC- 3.28ghz Core 2 Quad Q6600 (8mb cache) 6gb Ram
Windows 7 64bit

Normal
BBB:42.878fps
Splice:30.055fps
Tron:43.583fps

High Profile
BBB:10.143fps
Splice:7.737fps
Tron:12.599fps

HTPC- 3.2ghz Athlon II X3 450 (Unloced 4th core and reports as Phenom B50 with no L3 cache, 2mb L2 cache) 2gb Ram
Windows Vista 64bit

Normal
BBB:43.172
Splice:31.761
Tron:42.852fps

High Profile
BBB:11.359
Splice:8.347
Tron:12.161

ACER- 2.0ghz Turion 64 X2 TL-60 (2mb cache) 4gb Ram
Windows Vista 32bit

Normal
BBB:10.458fps
Splice:7.769fps
Tron:10.390fps

High Profile
BBB:2.551
Splice:1.876
Tron:2.732

Macbook- 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo T7200 (4mb cache) 3gb Ram
OS X Lion 10.7.3

Normal
BBB:14.142fps
Splice:10.987fps
Tron:14.352fps

High Profile
BBB:4.028
Splice:2.953
Tron:4.159


HP NC6400- 1.66ghz Core 2 Duo T5500 (2mb cache) 1.5gb Ram
GNU\Linux Ubuntu 11.10 64bit

Normal
BBB:12.720fps
Splice:9.322fps
Tron:12.361fps

High Profile
BBB:3.350fps
Splice:2.441fps
Tron:3.516fps

HP DV6- 2.4ghz Turion II P540 (2mb cache) 4gb Ram
Windows 7 64bit

Normal
BBB:18.453
Splice:13.297fps
Tron:17.909fps

High Profile
BBB:4.556fps
Splice:3.264fps
Tron:4.783fps

I think I may have mentioned a shed load of results

[DanceswithUnix]

Cheers Dances for benching the E350. I was hoping it would be a smidge quicker than that in comparison to the other 32bit results

Well it isn't bad for 17W really Optimised for web surfing not this sort of heavy crunching, so a nice platform but I don't tend to do real work on it.

I'll finish a proper bench at the weekend now I started.
High quality bunny takes a couple of hours and I couldn't run it overnight last night

ULV Piledriver might be more what you are hoping for perhaps?

[watercooled]

Perhaps they've added AVX/XOP optimisations to the encoder? AMD sent such a version to reviewers to benchmark Bulldozer with, and it would help SNB too.

Of course, that can't be the only thing they've done as even CPUs without these instruction sets see a huge improvement.

[watercooled]

High profile 1055T

bbb - 13.410801 fps
splice - 10.791035 fps
tron - 16.145193 fps

Not what I expected, and doesn't seem to fit in with the results posted in that article linked by CAT?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The article used HandBrake 0.9.5 though.

[MSIC]

System used:
Core i5 2300 (2.8Ghz, not overclocked)
16 GB RAM
Z68 Mobo
Win 7 64 Bit, using the new Handbrake 0.9.6 64 bit.

High Profile: ("using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX")
BBB 14.688353 fps (File size = 400,844 KB)
Splice 10.503302 fps (File size = 162,929 KB)
Tron 15.527462 fps (File size = 83,695 KB)

Normal: ("using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX")
BBB 61.377522 fps (File size = 372,465 KB)
Splice 43.461445 fps (File size = 146,213 KB)
Tron 58.885262 fps (File size = 87,661 KB)

I thought i'd include the quoted log for CPU capabilities for extra interest etc
Also, the first two files are smaller using 'normal' setting, but Tron is bigger compared to 'High Profile'.

[kalniel]

So it uses AVX? Nice

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Very interesting!!

I just looked at the results watercooled and MSIC got.

On Normal profile the 2.8GHZ Core i5 2300 is significantly faster than a 2.8GHZ henom II X6 1055T.

However,with the more CPU intensive,High Profile the Core i5 2300 and Phenom II X6 more or less trade blows.

It might explain why some reviews show conflicting results and in some ways confirms what HT4U also saw with the previous version of HandBrake.

[Pete301]

Thought I'd give this a shot before I upgrade in a couple of weeks, didn't have time to download BBB...

Core 2 Duo e7400 (2.8GHz), 4GB DDR2 ram, Win 7 64bit.

High:
Splice 4.137 FPS
Tron 5.969 FPS

Normal:
Splice 15.783 FPS
Tron 21.077 FPS

[Golden Dragoon]

Don't suppose anyone still has the output files from 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 to compare sizes? I know it's not ideal but it might give some indication of quality has been changed dramatically in the preset.

I compared them a few posts above, having had time to watch them now they are to my eyes completely identical in picture quality as well as very close in total file size.

Handbrake release note says that libx264 was updated.

Release notes for that give lots of performance tweaks specially in x86-64.

There seem to be a lot of code paths in there.

Considering the fact that the output files seem very much the same, I would say that the improvements are due to this.

[miniyazz]

BBB - normal - 55.995342 fps - 254s (4m14s)
BBB - high - 12.732021 fps - 1122s (18m42s)

Splice - normal - 44.787178 fps - 73s (1m13s)
Splice - high - 10.271161 fps - 316s (5m16s)

Tron - normal - 59.316494 fps - 59s
Tron - high - 16.692699 fps - 211s (3m31s)

On my laptop - i72820QM (same as before)

[vrykyl]

Time to chuck my results into the mix - seems to be a very nice speed increase on the 'normal' setting vs 0.9.5

i7 2700k @ 5ghz is a monster:

Normal
Tron     98.610802 fps	(37 seconds)
Splice   75.262444 fps  (44 seconds)
BBB      94.259605 fps 	(2 minutes 33 seconds)


High Profile
Tron     32.679737 fps	(1 minute 51 seconds)
Splice	 22.936869 fps 	(2 minutes 25 seconds)
BBB      25.865435 fps	(9 minutes 16 seconds)

My encode log shows "using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.2 AVX"

So Im guessing now AVX etc is in use the 6 core/12 thread cpu's will be impossible to match!