GIGABYTE GA-X99-Gaming G1 WiFi Motherboard Review

By Dan Stoltz

X264 HD Video Encoding Benchmark

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark

Simply put, the x264 HD Benchmark is a reproducible measure of how fast your machine can encode a short HD-quality video clip into a high quality x264 video file. It’s nice because everyone running it will use the same video clip and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate internal benchmark (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently. All these factors make this an ideal benchmark to compare different processors and systems to each other. We are using x264 HD v5.0.1 for this test.

x264 HD Encoding Benchmark

This application did fairly well when run on 8 threads, as you can see from the screen shot above. The first pass was not using all of the processing power available on the cores, but on the second pass all 12 threads were at ~95% load.

X264 HD Video Encoding Benchmark Result
Benchmark Results: In the x264 HD Video Encoding benchmark the GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WiFi was spot on with the other Intel X99 Motherboards. The First pass which isn’t the most demanding had an average performance of 128.66 frames per second, this is right between the other two Intel X99 motherboards which averaged 128.16FPS and 129.90FPS. The second pass which is considerably more demanding of the processor, had an average of 28.27 frames per second on the GIGABYTE X99-Gaming G1 WiFi. This is .01FPS slower than the EVGA 99 Classified and .06 frames per second slower than the ASUS X99 Deluxe.