Intel Core i7-6950X Processor Review – 10-core Broadwell-E Benchmarked

x264 HD Encoding

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.

This application scales across many threads and is ideal for processors with Intel Hyper-Threading or a bunch of cores.

Benchmark Results: The x264 HD v5.0.1 benchmark showed the Intel Core i7-6950X was able to average 130 FPS on pass 1 and 36 FPS on pass 2. With the processor overclocked up to 4.0GHz we were able to get 146 FPS on pass 1 and 41 FPS on pass 2, which is faster than anything we’ve ever tested before.