x264

Solutions with Ampere Cloud Native Processors

Leading Performance on the most widely used codec today!

Overview

Ampere Cloud-Native processors are designed to deliver exceptional performance and power efficiency for applications like video transcoding. The x.264 library, which implements the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard is very widely used today in a variety of video streaming services, runs extremely well on Ampere processors at scale. The relative results of two key performance metrics vs. x86 competitive platforms are shown here in the charts:

Performance: Throughput measured in total frames per second
Power Efficiency: More Throughput delivered per Watt

Performance

Performance/W

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Key Benefits

Ampere Altra Max processors deliver disruptive value for the H.264 video codec:

Predictable Performance: Up to 2.2x higher frame rates
Power Efficiency: Nearly 59% less power consumed at comparable performance
Scalability: Up to 66% fewer Altra Max processors required to deliver 10k frames/s

System configurations, components, software versions, and testing environments that differ from those used in Ampere’s tests may result in different measurements than those obtained by Ampere. The system configurations and components used in our testing are detailed here

Recommended Systems

Recommended Systems for x264

Ampere Altra Systems

Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max. These systems are flexible enough to meet the needs of any cloud deployment and come packed with Ampere's 80-core Altra or 128-core Altra Max processors

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Microsoft Azure

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Equinix Metal

Equinix Metal, an on-demand digital infrastructure platform, has created Gen3 configs with Ampere Altra for common workloads which are available in minutes on bare metal

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Google Cloud

Whether your business is early in its journey or well on its way to digital transformation, Google Cloud can help you solve your toughest challenges.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is the first in a series of HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers that deliver next-generation compute performance with higher power efficiency using Ampere^® Altra^® and Ampere ^® Altra^® Max cloud-native processors.

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OCI Ampere A1

Ampere Altra and Oracle Cloud combine predictable performance, near-linear scaling, and secure architecture with the best price-performance in the market in the following shapes:

Flexible Virtual Machines
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Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud's new SR1 instance is now publicly available - offering scalable VM Instances (up to 70 cores) allows customers to match an instance to their workload needs

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Testing & Regression

Regression Testing Results

x264

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Resources

Resources for x264

Relevant Links

Visit the Official Home Page

x264 VideoLAN Developers Page

Continuous Test Infrastructure

Here at Ampere we've built an extensive infrastructure focused on Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Regression (called CIDR).

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CIDR Demo

Test Information

Our testing runs 24/7/365 in our regression infrastructure.

Basic Functional Test

Verified vs. Unverified

Results are categorized as either 'Verified' or 'Unverified'.

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Test Notes

Test and build infrastructure can encounter complexities or unexpected speed bumps. Known incidents and their resolutions will be documented where applicable.

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Test Systems

Date,Platform and OS details of verified test results are displayed on hover bubble.

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Created At : March 25th 2022, 7:02:21 am

Last Updated At : July 31st 2023, 4:22:39 pm

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