Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake Processor Review
x264 HD Encoding
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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.
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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 i7-6700K was able to average 76.71 FPS on pass 1 and 19.87 FPS on pass 2. With the processor overclocked up to 4.6GHz we were able to get 87.00 FPS on pass 1 and 22.39 FPS on pass 2, which is faster than a stock clocked Intel Core i7-4790K and almost as fast as the Intel Core i7-4960X on the X79 platform!