GCC 4.7 Compiler Intel Sandy Bridge
GCC testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Testing with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS set to -O3 and -march=native. Benchmarks of GCC compiler versions 4.4.6, GCC 4.5.3, GCC 4.6.3, and GCC 4.7.0.
GCC 4.4.6
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system.
GCC 4.5.3
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.5.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
GCC 4.6.3
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
GCC 4.7.0 RC1
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Timed PHP Compilation
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
Himeno Benchmark
The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FLAC Audio Encoding
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Minion
GraphicsMagick
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
GraphicsMagick
Minion
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
GraphicsMagick
BYTE Unix Benchmark
Minion
GraphicsMagick
Timed MAFFT Alignment
Smallpt
Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
x264
VP8 libvpx Encoding
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Open FMM Nero2D
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
CLOMP
CLOMP is the C version of the Livermore OpenMP benchmark developed to measure OpenMP overheads and other performance impacts due to threading in order to influence future system designs. This particular test profile configuration is currently set to look at the OpenMP static schedule speed-up across all available CPU cores using the recommended test configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Apache Benchmark
LZMA Compression
Fhourstones
NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Minion
Timed HMMer Search
This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFmpeg
OpenSSL
GMPbench
Ogg Encoding
GCC 4.4.6
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 13 March 2012 19:17 by user phoronix.
GCC 4.5.3
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.5.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 13 March 2012 16:52 by user phoronix.
GCC 4.6.3
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 13 March 2012 14:06 by user phoronix.
GCC 4.7.0 RC1
Processor: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DX79SI, Chipset: Intel Sandy DMI2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 13 March 2012 11:55 by user phoronix.