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

It seems HandBrake 0.9.6 produces massive increases in video encoding rate with the new 64 bit version. Hence a new thread is being started to replace the old one:

http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware/...ded-power.html

Make sure you are using HandBrake 0.9.6 64 bit in the this thread and not the older 0.9.5 version!! Run both High Profile and Normal.




Let see how various CPUs do at HandBrake video encoding!

HandBrake 0.9.6 needs to be used:

http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Videos to encode:

1.)Tron:Legacy 1080p trailer

http://www.chip.de/downloads/HD-Trai..._37505058.html

296.6MB MOV file

2.)Splice 1080p trailer

http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/s...lr_1_1080P.wmv

336MB WMV file

3.)Big Buck Bunny 1080p

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/

886MB MP4 file

Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Conditions: High Profile and Normal

Output file type: MKV

You will find average FPS during the encode in the encode log(activity windows). The total time for the encode can also be worked out too.

Also state what system specifications you are using and how many CPU threads are being used.

Make sure you set HandBreak priority to high in the Tools menu and shut down programmes like Steam,Word and Firefox.

Edit!!

There seems to be a utility to close down any unnecessary processes!!

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Originally Posted by shakerist

You could use Smart Close to get a small fps increase , it ends all non critical processes and services automatically, of course you can add exceptions
http://download.cnet.com/SmartClose/...ml?tag=mncol;5

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Reserve for active chart.

HandBrake 0.9.5 archived results.

http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/s...-02-2012-1.png

Reserved for direct comparison table.

Wow it seems to make a massive difference to encoding speed!

Worryingly, the copy of BBB I had stored on my HDD got corrupted so just waiting for it to re-download.

In the meantime:
splice - 39.912811 fps
tron - 50.272049 fps

Same specs as before but 16GB RAM (4x4GB) but I doubt it makes any difference.

And more wow:
bbb - 46.684204 fps

I got 38.018112 fps for Tron and 28.139202 fps for Splice with a Core i3 2100.

Am going to have to check when I run BBB through it but I think the 0.9.5 version only used SSE2 on my E350. I would expect 64bit code to be twice as fast as 32bit for this from past Linux 64 vs 32bit transcoding experience, but if SSE3 is thrown in the mix as well then that would be a further boost.

Will need to run some Linux numbers as well I think.

CAT you were meant to add my results form the other thread so i could be numero uno for a while! :D

I'll get some Win 8 results later. :)

I am going to run the 32 bit version to see if any differences.

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Originally Posted by Terbinator

CAT you were meant to add my results form the other thread so i could be numero uno for a while! :D

I'll get some Win 8 results later. :)

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If you could do the 32 bit version of 0.9.6 if would be cool(if you have the time). It will be useful to see if the increase is partly down to better extension support.

Anyway,you are top of this chart!!:p

I just ran the 32bit version of HandBrake 0.9.6 and seem to be only getting slightly lower results.

I got 36.051361 fps for Tron and 26.389441 fps for Splice with a Core i3 2100.

The results don't seem right.

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

If you could do the 32 bit version of 0.9.6 if would be cool(if you have the time). It will be useful to see if the increase is partly down to better extension support.

Anyway,you are top of this chart!!:p

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I'll have to retract my Win 8 comparison as my install does nothing but freezes. :wallbash: After i finally got CPU-Z working it said my bus speed was 22MHz! :vacant:

I did some digging last night but nothing seemed to suggest better extension support was included, rather, they'd just improved the encode speed by better codecs and using lesser quality encoding for 'normal' in certain scenarios. i find it hard to believe that they have been the sole product behind a ~50% increase in performance, though.

If normal is now lower quality then the test conditions need to be changed. Cunning indeed.

Perhaps,High Profile would be a better choice now??

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

If normal is now lower quality then the test conditions need to be changed. Cunning indeed.

Perhaps,High Profile would be a better choice now??

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You'll have to read the release notes yourself before you decide (if you haven't? maybe even see if you can notice a difference in quality?) but bear in mind my interpretation up above is very liberal. :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

I just ran the 32bit version of HandBrake 0.9.6 and seem to be only getting slightly lower results.

I got 36.051361 fps for Tron and 26.389441 fps for Splice with a Core i3 2100.

The results don't seem right.

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Isn't that what makes this interesting? ;)

64 bit gets you twice the integer throughput which often doesn't matter. It gets you twice the number of integer registers which on the x86 can get 10% performance, or sometimes nothing. If the code is better at tuning its code path for a given core then that could work in 32 and 64 bit modes.

I expect my E350 has different bottlenecks to your i3 as well.