Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra

With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.3-ARM-Performance

[Quackdoc]

yeah, with a system like this, av1an would be a lot faster.

[sophisticles]

While the base price of this system is $3300, the as tested price will probably be more than twice that.

One would have to be out of their mind to spend that kind of cash for AV1 encoding instead of buying a $100 Arc based video card and encode in hardware with similar quality or buy one of the dedicated hardware encoding cards that retail for $1500 that are capable of producing better quality.

[Quackdoc]

While the base price of this system is $3300, the as tested price will probably be more than twice that.

One would have to be out of their mind to spend that kind of cash for AV1 encoding instead of buying a $100 Arc based video card and encode in hardware with similar quality or buy one of the dedicated hardware encoding cards that retail for $1500 that are capable of producing better quality.

well, if you use something like av1 that will thread way better then running svtav1 directly, it actually becomes a better value, that being said, you could also just get a thread ripper, or spec out your own arm server. svtav1psy for instance will blow any hwdec out of the water when it comes to size:quality even if you were to compare it to one of the new alveo cards. I mean it already does better without psy.

but yeah, threading here is the main bottleneck. so any chunked encoder will have a massive speed increase. If I was running a decently sized VOD service, I would buy some alveo systems for short term encodes, and I would probably spec out a good couple video encode machines. running svtav1 for more efficent/premium quality videos.