[Libav-user] Faster X265 encoding, buying new hardware, advice please?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-10-25 22:09 GMT+02:00 Dave <ffmpeg at dgmm.net>:

> Should I  be wary of AMD though or do the more modern CPUs support
> the same extensions as Intel, or at least are supported by the encoder
> such that I'm not going to end up with a pig in a poke if I choose AMD?

You could try to find an online performance test that uses
libx264, I suspect current AMD cpu's are supposed to show
very good results.

Carl Eugen