CPU Benchmark Performance: Encoding

One of the interesting elements on modern processors is encoding performance. This covers two main areas: encryption/decryption for secure data transfer, and video transcoding from one video format to another.

In the encrypt/decrypt scenario, how data is transferred and by what mechanism is pertinent to on-the-fly encryption of sensitive data - a process by which more modern devices are leaning to for software security.

Video transcoding as a tool to adjust the quality, file size and resolution of a video file has boomed in recent years, such as providing the optimum video for devices before consumption, or for game streamers who are wanting to upload the output from their video camera in real-time. As we move into live 3D video, this task will only get more strenuous, and it turns out that the performance of certain algorithms is a function of the input/output of the content.

For the Core i3-12300, we are running DDR5 memory at the following settings:

  • DDR5-4800(B) CL40

Encoding

(5-1a) Handbrake 1.3.2, 1080p30 H264 to 480p Discord

(5-1b) Handbrake 1.3.2, 1080p30 H264 to 720p YouTube

(5-1c) Handbrake 1.3.2, 1080p30 H264 to 4K60 HEVC

(5-2a) 7-Zip 1900 Compression

(5-2b) 7-Zip 1900 Decompression

(5-2c) 7-Zip 1900 Combined Score

(5-3) AES Encoding

(5-4) WinRAR 5.90 Test, 3477 files, 1.96 GB

The Intel Core i3-12300 struggles compared with chips that have more cores and threads when it comes to encoding.

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  • mode_13h - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    > The -E/TE are BGA variants

    According to Intel, they're the same FCLGA1700 package as the CPU reviewed in this article.

    https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compar...

    However, whether you can get them in Qty. 1 and whether any retail motherboards have validated ECC support for them is another matter.
  • mode_13h - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    > Are there different levels of ECC for DDR5?

    No. All DDR5 has on-die ECC, but that's just a band-aid to cover other shortcuts made by DDR5 (increased density, long-refresh) and probably won't deliver a net reliability improvement.

    The two variations of ECC currently supported by Intel are traditional out-of-band ECC, which requires special DIMMs and motherboards, or in-band ECC that should work with any DIMMs but at a slight performance penalty. From what I've seen, only certain Elkhart Lake CPUs so far support in-band ECC.
  • fmyhr - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    Thank you! Very much appreciate the info. First I'd heard of in-band ECC.
  • SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    When it comes to excelling in single thread applications, which applications are we really talking about in 2022 ? MS-DOS emulators and CPU-tests limited to 1 thread?
  • badger2k - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    Comments like these are a really easy way to show that you have no knowledge of how computer programs work.
  • SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    Really. So how with an example where it matters?
  • SunMaster - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    I'm not talking about where single threaded software exists, because that's just about everywhere. I'm wondering which singlethreaded applications is it possible to excel in, because they actually exist and their performance actually matter.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    Games. Multithreaded games still have a single primary rendering thread, or other tasks such as ai, that cannot be made parallel easily or at all, hence why alder lake wins at gaming benchmarks, even multithreaded ones
  • magreen - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    OCR of a long document in Adobe Acrobat. It’s infuriating that it’s still single threaded in 2022 even in the pro version, when it’s such an obviously parallelizable task. But it is what it is.
  • CiccioB - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link

    I wonder if you are serous or just trolling...
    If you know "single threaded software exists, because that's just about everywhere. I'm wondering which singlethreaded applications is it possible to excel in, because they actually exist and their performance actually matter."
    you may just think that you excel in all those mono tasking application that require times to be completed.
    I do not think it is that difficult to understand, so I just think you are just acting as a troll.

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