GCC Compiler Intel Sandy Bridge AVX fpmath GCC testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Testing with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS set to -O3 and -march=native. Benchmarks of GCC 4.7 RC1 when comparing the effects of building the GNU Compiler Collection with the --with-fpmath=avx to see how GCC 4.7 is impacted by the AVX floating-point arithmetic.
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GCC Compiler Intel Sandy Bridge AVX fpmath Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Stock AVX fpmath Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores) Intel DX79SI Intel Sandy DMI2 16384MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB Realtek ALC892 DELL P2210H Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.4.0 X Server 1.11.3 radeon 6.14.99 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.7.0 ext4 1920x1080 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - Stock: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto - AVX fpmath: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto --with-fpmath=avx System Details - Compiz was running on this system.
GCC Compiler Intel Sandy Bridge AVX fpmath build-php: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile npb: UA.A npb: SP.A npb: MG.B npb: LU.A npb: FT.B npb: BT.A ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping apache: Static Web Page Serving graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: HWB Color Space nero2d: Total Time minion: Solitaire minion: Quasigroup minion: Graceful minion: Bibd himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search gmpbench: Total Time openssl: RSA 4096-bit Performance vpxenc: vpxenc x264: H.264 Video Encoding ffmpeg: AVI To NTSC VCD encode-flac: WAV To FLAC encode-ogg: WAV To Ogg compress-lzma: 256MB File Compression clomp: Static OMP Speedup fhourstones: Complex Connect-4 Solving byte: Dhrystone 2 smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples c-ray: Total Time Stock AVX fpmath 24.08 70.92 73.66 9410.41 10409.75 16396.35 10069.85 17009.49 158.67 16263.52 98 151 85 123 163 534.09 145.82 188.09 90.02 161.22 1377.66 4.89 9.25 2833.40 75.45 23.58 171.68 12.34 6.29 9.43 155.14 6.38 10353.83 21255660.73 20 25.70 24.17 70.92 74.75 9625.70 10408.69 16999.52 10613.43 18631.50 158.95 16427.85 98 151 85 123 163 532.10 148.53 189.65 89.23 163.42 1378.74 5.06 9.22 2834 75.45 23.42 172.89 12.31 6.38 9.44 155.14 6.34 10235.50 21254777.57 20 25.74 OpenBenchmarking.org
Timed PHP Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Stock AVX fpmath 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 24.08 24.17 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native -pedantic -ldl -lz -lm
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Stock AVX fpmath 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.74, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 70.92 70.92
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A AVX fpmath Stock 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 74.75 73.66 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A AVX fpmath Stock 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 26.51, N = 3 SE +/- 18.78, N = 3 9625.70 9410.41 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Stock AVX fpmath 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 21.92, N = 3 SE +/- 37.33, N = 3 10409.75 10408.69 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A AVX fpmath Stock 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 42.68, N = 3 SE +/- 20.47, N = 3 16999.52 16396.35 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B AVX fpmath Stock 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 20.86, N = 3 SE +/- 11.49, N = 3 10613.43 10069.85 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A AVX fpmath Stock 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 23.03, N = 3 SE +/- 15.33, N = 3 18631.50 17009.49 1. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping AVX fpmath Stock 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 158.95 158.67 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -flto -msse -mrecip -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mssse3 -lSDL -lstdc++
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving AVX fpmath Stock 4K 8K 12K 16K 20K SE +/- 71.91, N = 3 SE +/- 70.28, N = 3 16427.85 16263.52 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -O3 -march=native -lm -lexpat -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen AVX fpmath Stock 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 98 98 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -march=native -pthread -ltiff -lfreetype -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lrt -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing AVX fpmath Stock 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 151 151 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -march=native -pthread -ltiff -lfreetype -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lrt -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding AVX fpmath Stock 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 85 85 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -march=native -pthread -ltiff -lfreetype -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lrt -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur AVX fpmath Stock 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 123 123 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -march=native -pthread -ltiff -lfreetype -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lrt -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space AVX fpmath Stock 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 163 163 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -march=native -pthread -ltiff -lfreetype -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lrt -lpthread
Open FMM Nero2D Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time AVX fpmath Stock 120 240 360 480 600 532.10 534.09 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=native -lfftw3 -llapack -lblas -lm
Minion Benchmark: Solitaire OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Stock AVX fpmath 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.80, N = 3 SE +/- 0.86, N = 3 145.82 148.53 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lboost_iostreams-mt
Minion Benchmark: Quasigroup OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Stock AVX fpmath 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 188.09 189.65 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lboost_iostreams-mt
Minion Benchmark: Graceful OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful AVX fpmath Stock 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 89.23 90.02 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lboost_iostreams-mt
Minion Benchmark: Bibd OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Stock AVX fpmath 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.53, N = 3 SE +/- 1.07, N = 3 161.22 163.42 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -lboost_iostreams-mt
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver AVX fpmath Stock 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 1.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 1378.74 1377.66 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Stock AVX fpmath 1.1385 2.277 3.4155 4.554 5.6925 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 4.89 5.06 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search AVX fpmath Stock 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 9.22 9.25 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
GMPbench Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org GMPbench Score, More Is Better GMPbench 0.2 Total Time AVX fpmath Stock 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 2834.00 2833.40 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native
OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance AVX fpmath Stock 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.25, N = 4 SE +/- 0.19, N = 4 75.45 75.45 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Stock AVX fpmath 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 23.58 23.42 1. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -lvpx -lm -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding AVX fpmath Stock 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 1.56, N = 3 SE +/- 1.29, N = 3 172.89 171.68
FFmpeg AVI To NTSC VCD OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD AVX fpmath Stock 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 12.31 12.34 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lasound -lSDL -lm -pthread -lbz2
FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Stock AVX fpmath 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.09, N = 6 6.29 6.38 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=native -logg -lm
Ogg Encoding WAV To Ogg OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Stock AVX fpmath 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.00, N = 5 SE +/- 0.01, N = 5 9.43 9.44 1. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -ffast-math -fsigned-char -O3 -march=native -lvorbis -lm -logg
LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Stock AVX fpmath 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.29, N = 3 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 155.14 155.14 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Stock AVX fpmath 2 4 6 8 10 SE +/- 0.03, N = 5 SE +/- 0.05, N = 5 6.38 6.34 1. (CC) gcc options: --openmp -O3 -lm
Fhourstones Complex Connect-4 Solving OpenBenchmarking.org Kpos / sec, More Is Better Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Stock AVX fpmath 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 13.21, N = 3 SE +/- 32.53, N = 3 10353.83 10235.50 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
BYTE Unix Benchmark Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 OpenBenchmarking.org LPS, More Is Better BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 Stock AVX fpmath 5M 10M 15M 20M 25M SE +/- 40039.93, N = 3 SE +/- 32934.69, N = 3 21255660.73 21254777.57 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=native
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Stock AVX fpmath 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 20 20 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp -O3 -march=native
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Stock AVX fpmath 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 25.70 25.74 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3 -march=native
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