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What Handbrake encode performance do you get (mainly i5 2500K users but others welcome)

Yeah I was expecting a bit more of a gap,
But its an interesting thread thanks for putting it up, I use handbrake a lot and I always wonder if theres faster+same quality programs.
 
My 2500k is not stock, it's at 4.3GHz but I guess the difference is the extra threads available to the 2600K+ chips!

I wonder how the AMDs do in it
 
mrk said:
My 2500k is not stock, it's at 4.3GHz but I guess the difference is the extra threads available to the 2600K+ chips!

I wonder how the AMDs do in it
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Doh....of course.

I suspect this being quite a limited test its obviously not showing the true difference between mine and your chip.

I reckon the hex cores should do quite well actually if they have a decent clockspeed, not sure about the quads though.
 
Same i7 2600K at 4.3, HT enabled.
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Potentially, with certain options Handbrake only uses 3 thread, afaik the classic benchmark for it pass one uses 3 threads, pass 2 uses either up to 8, or as many as it can, I'm not sure which.

How you overclock a sandy is fairly important. Mrk, have you played with the TDP settings at all in the bios.

I'm running what I think is around 4.4Ghz(cpu-z is saying 3.3Ghz, the not always accurate Asrock overclocking tool says 4.4Ghz, its crashed a couple times recently, can't reboot at the moment to check bios settings as they may have reset.

Either way I'm getting 28.37fps average on that file with that preset on latest Handbrake, sorry thats a 2500k.

What is going to be fairly important to work out is, what hdd/ssd are you running and these guys. First run was closer to 26fps on a raid 0 drive i downloaded the file to, second faster run I did starting and finishing on my SSD, so that's given me pretty much a 10% boost just from doing that.

After running it, it definitely uses 4 threads and would imagine more judging from the 2600k results.

It's faster, but not massively so, personally I wouldn't spend the money on an upgrade unless you literally spend all day encoding, if you set a bunch going overnight it will finish before you wake up anyway be it a 2500k or 2600k.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Potentially, with certain options Handbrake only uses 3 thread, afaik the classic benchmark for it pass one uses 3 threads, pass 2 uses either up to 8, or as many as it can, I'm not sure which.

How you overclock a sandy is fairly important. Mrk, have you played with the TDP settings at all in the bios.

I'm running what I think is around 4.4Ghz(cpu-z is saying 3.3Ghz, the not always accurate Asrock overclocking tool says 4.4Ghz, its crashed a couple times recently, can't reboot at the moment to check bios settings as they may have reset.

Either way I'm getting 28.37fps average on that file with that preset on latest Handbrake, sorry thats a 2500k.

What is going to be fairly important to work out is, what hdd/ssd are you running and these guys. First run was closer to 26fps on a raid 0 drive i downloaded the file to, second faster run I did starting and finishing on my SSD, so that's given me pretty much a 10% boost just from doing that.

After running it, it definitely uses 4 threads and would imagine more judging from the 2600k results.

It's faster, but not massively so, personally I wouldn't spend the money on an upgrade unless you literally spend all day encoding, if you set a bunch going overnight it will finish before you wake up anyway be it a 2500k or 2600k.
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TDP settings? I have a P67A-G45-B3 so there are plenty of options and I spent weeks playing around before settling on 4.3GHz for the best balance of performance, silence and thermals. I have 16GB of RAM which is at its stock 1600MHz speed. I do not wish to change my BIOS settings any further as they are perfect tbh.

The test was done on a Force 3 120GB SSD and I only did one run and closed no background apps such as STEAM/Origin etc.
 
1337z0r said:
Heres my 2700K @ 4.6Ghz

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Damnit, how come yours was slow enough for Handbrake to report the Average FPS? Mine keeps saying 000.0 and a split second after the encode's done... I'm going to try rerun this a few times now...

EDIT: Oh wow... I'm such an idiot, I just realised the video file somehow stopped downloading after 4mb... Gonna redownload!
 
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Orcvader said:
Damnit, how come yours was slow enough for Handbrake to report the Average FPS? Mine keeps saying 000.0 and a split second after the encode's done... I'm going to try rerun this a few times now...
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Did the file actually encode then? the output gas a filesize and can play?

Edit*

looool!
 
i7 2700K @ 4.6ghz (HT enabled)

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I think the clip is too short for an accurate comparision to be made. Hanbrake barely makes the fps calculations before the encode finishes. Ideally a full movie or at least a few minutes of footage.

Maybe if we all downloaded one of those 1080p movie trailers from somewhere, and encoded that, would be way better. Plus some a full screenshot of handbrake; you never know, some people have no decency.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I think the clip is too short for an accurate comparision to be made. Hanbrake barely makes the fps calculations before the encode finishes. Ideally a full movie or at least a few minutes of footage.
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Agreed, I noticed the average FPS showed up as ~38 for me initially, then fell to ~33, then it started to jump a bit up and down after.
 
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