Benchmark site with encoding time using different CPUs

[QueBert]

I Googled the crap out of this, most of what I saw was real general crap from a single person and what their system could do. I'm looking for a site with a benchmark comparison of different CPU's and the encoding time for a Blu Ray movie. I just got a drive and I tried encoding the 1st BluRay I bought into MKV, and it was sloooow. My CPU's a e6550 so it won't be hard to top it. But if I could see a big list I could figure out which CPU will give me the best encoding upgrade without breaking the bank.

 

[dclive]

I Googled the crap out of this, most of what I saw was real general crap from a single person and what their system could do. I'm looking for a site with a benchmark comparison of different CPU's and the encoding time for a Blu Ray movie. I just got a drive and I tried encoding the 1st BluRay I bought into MKV, and it was sloooow. My CPU's a e6550 so it won't be hard to top it. But if I could see a big list I could figure out which CPU will give me the best encoding upgrade without breaking the bank.

Hmm...take a few seconds and look on Anandtech's site?

 

[SithSolo1]

Do you know what model motherboard you have?
What amount of cash are you looking to spend?

There are some 775 quads out there that would definitely speed up your encoding process if the encoding software supports multiple cores. If we know the model of the board we can figure out the best processor you can toss in there or if it would be cheaper just to get a new mobo/processor/ram.

As to your original question, the Anandtech Bench has some encoding tests that you can use to gauge the relative "encoding prowess" of different cpus.

 

[QueBert]

Do you know what model motherboard you have?
What amount of cash are you looking to spend?

There are some 775 quads out there that would definitely speed up your encoding process if the encoding software supports multiple cores. If we know the model of the board we can figure out the best processor you can toss in there or if it would be cheaper just to get a new mobo/processor/ram.

As to your original question, the Anandtech Bench has some encoding tests that you can use to gauge the relative "encoding prowess" of different cpus.

p45 chipset, I was pondering a C2D Quad, but was thinking a i5 2500k too. I know the 2500k would be a lot better, but not sure how much over maybe a q6600. I'm getting about 1.5fps now when I do 1080p encoding.

 

[Claudius-07]

There are loads of sites that give detailed info in regards to actual encoding performance based on different CPU's. This site for instance . Go to the main page and hit the Bench link. There choose Video Creation and encoding from the first drop down menu and then on the right plug in a few CPU's for comparison. If you are doing BR rips, choose the X264 comparison charts.

If you are sticking to the 775 platform then yes getting say a 9550 quad would give you a nice boost. Also depending on what software you are using, like say DVDFAB (yah you gotta pay for it), that program leverages your GPU (if supported), for decoding and encoding. If you have a relatively newer Nvidia based card that supports CUDA, you will see a massive gain in speed. Combine a quad with a CUDA based GPU and you would be amazed at the increase.

If on the other hand you use apps that do not take advantage of any sort of GPU acceleration, then at this point it's all CPU and the fastest/newest/most core'ish you can get will be the only solution.

Moving to a 2500k would be a massive jump especially in encoding (though I am not sure 100% if or what apps you would require that would levarge the new capabilities of the 2500K). However with the 2500K you would need to grab a new mobo and DDR3 RAM... so some cost there.

Edit: on a side note, if you are not worried about actual space on your storage system, you could also just "rip" the BR movie (main file) to your system. Takes WAY less time but again that is if you don't care to have 20-30GB movie files.

 

[SithSolo1]

p45 chipset, I was pondering a C2D Quad, but was thinking a i5 2500k too. I know the 2500k would be a lot better, but not sure how much over maybe a q6600. I'm getting about 1.5fps now when I do 1080p encoding.

According to the Anandtech Bench a q9550 would probably be an 80-110% increase in x264 encoding speed over what you have now depending on the program and you should, in theory, be able to drop it right in and go.

An i5 2500k would be another 30-45% increase over a q9550 but at minimum you'd need a new motherboard, probably ram as well. However since it is the lowest processor on Intel's newest socket you would have "drop-in" upgrade options for the future instead of staying on a dead platform.