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Old 3rd November 2008, 19:26   #1  |  Link
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x264 on Nehalem

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=3448&p=18

These benchmarks cite "We're reporting results from the 0.59.819 version of x264."

I'm not familiar w/ that version numbering (i'm more familiar with the revision /commit numbers)

is this a recent build? this is w/o the Nehalem optimizations right?
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Old 3rd November 2008, 19:30   #2  |  Link
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r819. that was pre-production hardware. the final results may vary (expecially in a better way)...
look here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...78#post1209478 and here: http://www.ntcompatible.com/Intel_Co...p_s121605.html

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Old 3rd November 2008, 19:46   #3  |  Link
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I already have a Nehalem performance patch ready; I just can't commit it until official release
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is this official enough?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/03/1324208
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By official, I believe he means a "hard launch" where it's actually available for consumers, not a paper launch like they just did. That, and he may be under a NDA where he wouldn't be allowed to release it until a specific date.
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You're telling me that the massive performance increase that's being reported by hardware sites doesn't even include Core i7 optimizations?

I can't wait

I guess it's time to start thinking about new encoding servers /

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Well, they used an x264 exe that's what, 200 revisions old? I'm sure by the time Nehalem rolls out proper we'll have some.. sizable gains in speed.
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Supposedly the NDA was lifted today. Hope its true. :\
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Supposedly the NDA was lifted today. Hope its true. :\
It was? I have no idea when mine ends...
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Supposedly the NDA was lifted today. Hope its true. :\
Yeah, it's lifted. There's a ton of Core i7 reviews up now as well.


*edit* Oh, and since the NDA is lifted, do you have any performace comparisons for us?

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Yep, NDA ended around 36hrs ago, go submit the nehalm patches I wanna see some proper benchmarks with the new cpu's.
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Yep, NDA ended around 36hrs ago, go submit the nehalm patches
Already done... I wanted to do the pminpos patch as well but there are still some issues with that one, like the fact that it doesn't actually work properly.
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I wanna see some proper benchmarks with the new cpu's.
How about this?
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is this at the same clock speed?
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is this at the same clock speed?
No, the numbers were measured in clock cycles, so its independent of clock speed.
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not bad

Would be good to see benchmarks in fps of High Profile Level 4.1 with 2-pass unrestricted profile and do 1920*1080, 1280*720 and 640*352 resolutions to give a real impression how much faster it is for bluray and for 1080i mpeg2 and 1080i mpeg4 tv encodes.
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Just curious about the mechanics of the new patch; does it use the new SSE4.2 instruction set, or some other aspect of the Nehalem architecture? or are the speed gains from 4 extra logical cores? or some combination of factors (probably) ?

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SSE4.x = Pile Of Crap (at least for video encoding).
The speed advantages are almost all due to the improved architecture and maybe the new hyperthreading.
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Overall speed improvement with Nehalem vs Penryn at the same clock speed is around 40%.
Are you still standing behind this statement? If this is the case these CPU's are going to essentially revolutionize the way we use X264. Could you post some more real world comparisons?
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Are you still standing behind this statement? If this is the case these CPU's are going to essentially revolutionize the way we use X264. Could you post some more real world comparisons?
Anandtech has some real benchmarks, if you want more.

I don't see how its that revolutionary; new CPUs are supposed to be faster, aren't they?
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Anandtech has some real benchmarks, if you want more.

I don't see how its that revolutionary; new CPUs are supposed to be faster, aren't they?
No Way!! New cpus are supposed to be hotter and more clunky. This Idea of faster and cooler is unheard of! (yes, im being sarcastic)

Whats amazing is the Size of the increase with nehelam (in the case of encoding) ~36% faster then the older penryn.

Though the speed increases aren't uniform through all applications (as they rarely are) But in some cases I do feel somewhat disappointed in the increase.
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