What are the best PC's equipment for good and fast encode?

[sinobn]

Hello,

What are the best PC's equipment for good and fast encode? Such as processor which one is the best AMD or INTEL? Graphic Card, RAM... as well. With the

[LigH.de]

Current intel processors are probably much better than AMD processors, due to more cores, higher frequency, and top SIMD instruction set extensions (like AVX, AVX2, AVX512). But they also cost a lot more.

8 GB RAM should be a minimum today when you are interested in processing UHD resolutions, better 16 GB. And definitely a 64 bit OS.

Graphic card ... well, recent Nvidia cards have decoding chips and parallelization techniques which can be used by different tools. And in addition, intel CPUs also offer QuickSync. All-In-One.

If you can afford the prices.

[jagabo]

Hello,

What are the best PC's equipment for good and fast encode?

It depends on the software you use and the quality you want. Some software can use Intel, Nvidia, and/or AMD GPU hardware encoding. Some only uses the CPU. For h.264 encoding, none of the hardware encoders delivers as good quality as x264 (at the same bitrate or file size).

[smitbret]

Hello,

What are the best PC's equipment for good and fast encode?

It depends on the software you use and the quality you want. Some software can use Intel, Nvidia, and/or AMD GPU hardware encoding. Some only uses the CPU. For h.264 encoding, none of the hardware encoders delivers as good quality as x264 (at the same bitrate or file size).

QFT

I haven't seen anything that I know was encoded with Intel QuickSync but my experience a few years ago with nVidia's CUDA encoding keeps me a long, long distance from even considering it. In general, I have found that Passmark scores are a pretty good idea of how much h264 processing power a CPU has (as long as the software can use the max # of cores). AMD FX 83XX CPUs are a bargain for encoding if the increased power consumption doesn't throw you for a loop.

[jagabo]

The latest versions of Intel QuickSync (Haswell and newer) are a little better than the older versions (like Sandy Bridge). I would say Haswell quality is approaching x264 at the veryfast preset (in fact that's Intel's stated goal) and the best quality of all the GPU based h.264 encoders.

[redwudz]

AMD FX 83XX CPUs are a bargain for encoding if the increased power consumption doesn't throw you for a loop.

I'm been using a FX8350 since May 2014 with a Corsair watercooler to control the 125W CPU. No reason to upgrade.
It encodes an average DVD from the disc to a ~2GB MKV/AC3 in about 15 minutes with good quality. CQ=18.5 with VidCoder.