AMD A10-6800K Compiler GCC Tuning AMD A10-6800K APU testing of various compiler tuning options of GCC 4.8.1 on Ubuntu 13.10 Linux. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix. bdver2: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 bdver1: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 btver2: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 btver1: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 barcelona: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 athlon64: Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 505.89 |=========================================================== bdver1 .... 496.21 |========================================================== btver2 .... 484.80 |========================================================= btver1 .... 481.50 |======================================================== barcelona . 468.89 |======================================================= athlon64 .. 487.51 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 67.22 |===================================================== bdver1 .... 69.46 |====================================================== btver2 .... 65.37 |=================================================== btver1 .... 69.12 |====================================================== barcelona . 69.40 |====================================================== athlon64 .. 76.47 |============================================================ SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 1008.88 |========================================================== bdver1 .... 999.02 |========================================================= btver2 .... 888.52 |=================================================== btver1 .... 999.17 |========================================================= barcelona . 984.90 |========================================================= athlon64 .. 974.17 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 1221.85 |========================================================== bdver1 .... 1219.08 |========================================================== btver2 .... 1106.55 |==================================================== btver1 .... 1227.48 |========================================================== barcelona . 1199.73 |========================================================= athlon64 .. 960.11 |============================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 88.10 |=========================================================== bdver1 .... 88.86 |============================================================ btver2 .... 48.29 |================================= btver1 .... 87.15 |=========================================================== barcelona . 49.07 |================================= athlon64 .. 87.09 |=========================================================== x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 97.88 |============================================================ bdver1 .... 98.24 |============================================================ btver2 .... 84.96 |==================================================== btver1 .... 98.25 |============================================================ barcelona . 85.27 |==================================================== athlon64 .. 97.94 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 116 |============================================================ bdver1 .... 119 |============================================================== btver2 .... 84 |============================================ btver1 .... 91 |=============================================== barcelona . 98 |=================================================== athlon64 .. 90 |=============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 92 |=============================================================== bdver1 .... 92 |=============================================================== btver2 .... 56 |====================================== btver1 .... 48 |================================= barcelona . 80 |======================================================= athlon64 .. 48 |================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 152 |============================================================== bdver1 .... 151 |============================================================== btver2 .... 135 |======================================================= btver1 .... 135 |======================================================= barcelona . 140 |========================================================= athlon64 .. 135 |======================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 159 |========================================================= bdver1 .... 168 |============================================================ btver2 .... 169 |============================================================ btver1 .... 174 |============================================================== barcelona . 171 |============================================================= athlon64 .. 162 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 83 |=============================================================== bdver1 .... 83 |=============================================================== btver2 .... 80 |============================================================= btver1 .... 79 |============================================================ barcelona . 78 |=========================================================== athlon64 .. 83 |=============================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 835.46 |=========================================================== bdver1 .... 838.19 |=========================================================== btver2 .... 823.58 |========================================================== btver1 .... 806.26 |========================================================= barcelona . 812.90 |========================================================= athlon64 .. 812.40 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 33.10 |=========================== bdver1 .... 32.87 |=========================== btver2 .... 42.43 |================================== btver1 .... 62.39 |=================================================== barcelona . 44.01 |==================================== athlon64 .. 73.83 |============================================================ Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 298.53 |========================================================= bdver1 .... 302.03 |========================================================== btver2 .... 293.42 |======================================================== btver1 .... 302.42 |========================================================== barcelona . 306.52 |=========================================================== athlon64 .. 290.87 |======================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 57 |================================================== bdver1 .... 58 |=================================================== btver2 .... 59 |==================================================== btver1 .... 63 |======================================================= barcelona . 61 |===================================================== athlon64 .. 72 |=============================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 6.81 |========================================================== bdver1 .... 6.80 |========================================================== btver1 .... 7.11 |============================================================= barcelona . 7.11 |============================================================= athlon64 .. 6.91 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 16.81 |======================================================= bdver1 .... 16.80 |======================================================= btver2 .... 17.24 |========================================================= btver1 .... 17.95 |=========================================================== barcelona . 18.24 |============================================================ athlon64 .. 17.31 |========================================================= FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 .... 15.57 |====================================================== bdver1 .... 17.32 |============================================================ btver1 .... 15.43 |===================================================== barcelona . 15.73 |====================================================== athlon64 .. 17.34 |============================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better bdver2 .... 21944.40 |======================================================== bdver1 .... 21416.23 |====================================================== btver1 .... 22487.52 |========================================================= barcelona . 21990.05 |======================================================== athlon64 .. 20975.39 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