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Old 20th January 2019, 16:45   #24  |  Link
mparade
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Originally Posted by asarian View Post
On that matter -- if allowed here -- back in the day, for x264, it was said too many cores (= threads) would deteriorate the quality. Wasn't particularly relevant at the time, but nowadays (I'm thinking of getting an i9 9980XE myself, with 18 cores) the question may actually become pertinent again.

So, is this still an issue for x265? And, if so, at how many cores should we start to worry?
I am not using x265 for 1080p content just because x264 is able to provide the quality I want in the size interval I am aiming at keeping menus as well and very fast using my processor even with preset slower, however, I have to divide the content into chunks for a better processor utilization to reach.
For HD and SD res. I maximalize threads and lookahead threads to 12&4 and 6&2 correspondingly.
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