Primesieve

Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve primarily benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark primesieve.

Project Site

primesieve.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

23 October 2012

Last Updated

15 March 2024

Test Maintainer

Kim Walisch

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

19 Seconds

Average Run Time

8 Minutes, 23 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

200k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 15 June 2024.

Revision History

pts/primesieve-1.10.0 [View Source] Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:16:10 GMT
Update against Primesieve 12.1 upstream. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/776

pts/primesieve-1.9.0 [View Source] Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:19:25 GMT
Update against Primesieve 8.0 upstream.

pts/primesieve-1.8.0 [View Source] Sat, 04 Dec 2021 05:39:18 GMT
Update against Primesieve 7.7 upstream.

pts/primesieve-1.7.0 [View Source] Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:11:15 GMT
Update against Primesieve 7.4 upstream, https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/61

pts/primesieve-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:57:57 GMT
Update against upstream Primesieve, https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/43

pts/primesieve-1.5.0 [View Source] Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:51:39 GMT
Updated against Primesieve 7.1 from upstream, posted via GitHub tracker.

pts/primesieve-1.4.1 [View Source] Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:13:46 GMT
Update download links.

pts/primesieve-1.4.0 [View Source] Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:25:19 GMT
Upstream updates, switch from using OpenMP to C++11 threads.

pts/primesieve-1.3.1 [View Source] Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:52:52 GMT
Update against new Primesieve.

pts/primesieve-1.3.0 [View Source] Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:16:32 GMT
Updated test profile for new upstream Primesieve 5.4 by Kim Walisch.

pts/primesieve-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:46:52 GMT
Update Primesieve test profile against upstream v5.0 by Kim Walisch. Also add in SHA256 file sums and test against PTS5 Git.

pts/primesieve-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:59:40 GMT
Update download links file correctly.

pts/primesieve-1.1.0 [View Source] Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:56:17 GMT
Update against upstream Primesieve 4.2.

pts/primesieve-1.0.2 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:11:38 GMT
Improve some text string formatting.

pts/primesieve-1.0.1 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:58:14 GMT
Add SMP internal tag since Primesieve can use OpenMP.

pts/primesieve-1.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:55:00 GMT
Initial commit of the Primesieve test profile submitted by Kim Walisch.

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Primesieve 12.1

Length: 1e13

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 311 public results since 15 March 2024 with the latest data as of 13 June 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

100th

11 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

97th

AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

96th

AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core

94th

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

93rd

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

90th

2 x Intel Xeon 6780E

85th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

83rd

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8468

80th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 30

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9480

75th

33 ^{+/- 4}

2 x Intel Xeon Max 9468

75th

ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

73rd

36 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y

73rd

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

69th

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

67th

44 ^{+/- 2}

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

64th

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

58th

AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core

53rd

Median

50th

Intel Xeon Max 9480

50th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y

49th

Intel Xeon Max 9468

47th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

46th

Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y

44th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

43rd

2 x AMD EPYC 7303 16-Core

41st

82 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 4564P 16-Core

41st

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

38th

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-Core

37th

Intel Xeon Gold 6414U

36th

100

Intel Xeon Gold 6421N

36th

100

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

31st

108 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 4484PX 12-Core

29th

112

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

29th

117

AMD EPYC 4464P 12-Core

27th

121

Intel Core i9-10980XE

26th

129

Low-Tier

25th

> 130

Intel Core i9-14900K

25th

132 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 4364P 8-Core

23rd

153

AMD EPYC 4344P 8-Core

22nd

158

AMD EPYC 4244P 6-Core

20th

205

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

19th

206 ^{+/- 19}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

19th

210 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

16th

224

Intel Xeon E E-2488

15th

245 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

12th

250 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

11th

266 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

11th

300

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

9th

354 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

8th

410 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

6th

465 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

5th

467 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i7-1280P

5th

491 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

2nd

775 ^{+/- 20}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Primesieve 12.1 - Length: 1e13) has an average run-time of 6 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PUNPCKLQDQ MOVDQA MOVDQU MOVD CVTSI2SD MULSD ADDSD MOVAPD CVTTSD2SI DIVSD COMISD UCOMISD SQRTSD SUBSD MAXSD PADDQ MINSD SHUFPD

SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

POPCNT

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

FMA (FMA)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD132SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 16 March 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 72-Core

FreeBSD 14.1 Benchmarks 2 Systems - 114 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] DragonFly - 6.4-RELEASE - GCC 8.3
batch-2 5 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
FreeBSD 14.1 Benchmarks 1 System - 115 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major thelio-major-r5 - AMD [AMD] FreeBSD - 14.1-RELEASE - Clang 18.1.5
batch-2 4 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
batch-2 3 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
batch-2 2 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
before-cpu-upgrade 9 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X3 720 - MSI KA780G - AMD RS780 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 20.04 - 6.1.86unif20g - MATE 1.24.0
batch-2 1 System - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
batch-2 1 System - 63 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
batch-2 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
batch-2 1 System - 31 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
2 x Intel Xeon 6780E 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon 6780E - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D55Q-2U S7Q-MB-MPS-MDP - Intel Ice Lake IEH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.9.0-060900rc3-generic - GCC 13.2.0
2024 Server CPUs 22 Systems - 263 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9684X 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.9.0-060900rc3-generic - GCC 13.2.0
W11_23H2_x64_AMD64_AMD_3400G 1 System - 120 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G - HP 8643 - 2 x 16384 MB 2667MHz Unknown Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3672 - 31.0.21912.14
before-cpu-upgrade 6 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X3 720 - MSI KA780G - AMD RS780 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 20.04 - 6.1.86unif20g - MATE 1.24.0

xeon emr 4 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results	2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D54Q-2U S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.6.0-rc5-phx-patched - GNOME Shell 45.0
newsh' 4 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid S74G-2U 1S7GZ9Z0000 S7G MB - 1 x 480GB DRAM-6400MT Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-1013-NVIDIA-64k - NVIDIA
ddddx 4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell 45.0
2024-03-28-1658 76 Systems - 921 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P - Intel Device 7a27 SystemRescue 10.01 - 6.1.30-1-lts - X Server 1.21.1.8
kdlkf 3 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core - AMD Cinnabar - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell
fggg 4 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	Intel Core Ultra 7 155H - MTL Swift SFG14-72T Coral_MTH - Intel Device 7e7f Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.8.0-060800rc1daily20240126-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
GCC 14 vs. Clang 18 - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Featured Compiler Comparison	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
2888 4 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
dggg 2 Systems - 63 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
ffhgf 3 Systems - 114 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.0.0-1010-oem - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
extra Featured Processor Comparison	INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D54Q-2U S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GCC 13.2.0
extra Featured Processor Comparison	INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592+ - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D54Q-2U S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-22-generic - GCC 13.2.0
dddd 2 Systems - 219 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework Laptop 16 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
dgg 2 Systems - 57 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-18-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11
sssf 3 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.7-300.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.0

Primesieve

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Primesieve 12.1

Length: 1e13

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results