Is my result a typical benchmark? (UHD 630 HW encode)

pmikep wrote on 12/4/2019, 4:20 AM

I have said in this forum that I would never buy an Intel CPU or go to Win10. (The former which has kept me from upgrading MEP, since Magix says that MEP is optimized for Intel's QuickSync.)

In a way, I still haven't bought an Intel or Win10, although recently I bought a used Dell computer that has an Intel 8th gen i3 and Win10 Home in it.

Now that I have it, I was curious to see how MEP would do with QuickSync, since the i3-8100 has the UHD 630 iGPU in it. (As you all probably know, Intel finally got competitive with the 8th gen chips, and the lowly i3 now has four real cores and more L3 cache.)

So I installed the trial version of MEP 2020 Plus.

Since the trial version is limited to 3 minute exports, I tested encoding on a 3 minute clip. It is 768 x 432 (kind of an odd ball resolution, from OBS), 30 fps. I manually set the BW to 3000 kbs. Hardware encoding on the UHD 630. A not very demanding encode.

The 3 minute clip, with nothing done to it, took 1 minute to encode. (It was a 2 hour TV movie, trimmed to 3 minutes.)

The 4 cores ran at about 20% and the iGPU at 18%.

Yeah, that's 3x faster than the same clip running on my 8 core AMD with a GTX-960, which ran all 8 cores at 50% and the GPU at zero. But it's still terribly slow. I mean, I was expecting the cores or the GPU to be near 100%.

If it were more in the neighborhood of 30 seconds (like a free High End competitor) I might buy MEP 2020.

So could I trouble a few of you with similar or even higher end systems to encode a like 3 minute clip and tell me how long it takes your system?

I could make some hand waving argument that the hardware encoding in the UHD 630 isn't optimized for odd ball, low res clips like this. Maybe it flies at 2K or 4K? If that's your experience, I would like knowing that too. (Although if the iGPU isn't optimized for my low res test clip, then why isn't the CPU going to 100% to make up for it?)

FWIW, I have Real Time Windows Defender turned off.

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Scenestealer wrote on 4/24/2020, 4:09 PM

@CubeAce @johnebaker @pmikep

Hi All

Yes Ray, that was the setting I was referring to - but I fully appreciate that this is unlikely to change much as like the CPU Speedstep it ramps up when required as Mike has mentioned. Thanks for testing. There is no downside for me and it just removes another variable - latency - and I have the CPU set to the same 100% clock state. BTW I would not expect the CPU and iGPU clocks to be similar as they are separate pieces of hardware even though they are on the same die.

I see you have the Ultimate Plan enabled - remind me - there is a SW switch you need to change to get that?

John - sometimes I appear too many times - like in one of Rays earlier comments. I think the trick is to make sure you have a space between before you select the next link or they all come out the same. Earlier I tried to select @emmrecs in the middle of a sentence and it could not find him at all, even though I typed the whole name. Worked this time though! Hi Jeff 🙂!

Peter

CubeAce wrote on 4/24/2020, 4:22 PM

@Scenestealer

Hi Peter.

For the settings it's. Settings \ Power and Sleep \ Additional Power Settings \ Show Additional Plans \ Ultimate Performance \ Change plan settings \ Change advanced power settings, that then opens the dialogue box and change all individual relevant power settings.

As for people going missing or not to notify. It sometimes seems totally random as to who shows and doesn't.

If you put more than one person on a line you need to space the entries. I sometimes think that the activity boxes don't align with where you expect the mouse click to work.

Ray.