Intel Core i7-5960X 8-Core Haswell-E Processor Review

Handbrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It is popular today as it allows you to transcode multiple input video formats to h.264 output format and is highly multithreaded.

We used Big Buck Bunny as our input file, which has become one of the world standards for video benchmarks. The 1080P clip was used in the MP4 format and the workload is encoded into h.264 output format using the preset – high profile. This benchmark test was setup to give you an idea of how these processors can take a 1080p BD rip and turn it into a 1080p H.264. HandBrake version 0.9.9 was used for benchmarking and we highly encourage you to download this MP4 clip and compare your system to ours with Handbrake!

Benchmark Results: HandBrake version 0.9.9 showed the Intel Core i7-5960X was killing it! The 5960X averaged over 60FPS on over the course of the transcode and was found to be 47% faster than the Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Processor.