GCC 4.7.0 compiler tuning with Intel Ivy Bridge looking at the performance of various compiler flags. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Tested options were march=nocona, march=core2, march=corei7, march=corei7-avx, and march=core-avx-i. The -O3 was also set for the CFLAG/CXXFLAGS for all runs.
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Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge GCC Compiler Tuning
GCC 4.7.0 compiler tuning with Intel Ivy Bridge looking at the performance of various compiler flags. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com. Tested options were march=nocona, march=core2, march=corei7, march=corei7-avx, and march=core-avx-i. The -O3 was also set for the CFLAG/CXXFLAGS for all runs.
,,"march=nocona","march=core2","march=corei7","march=corei7-avx","march=core-avx-i"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0,ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0,ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0,ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0,ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0
Chipset,,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM,Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM
Memory,,15360MB,15360MB,15360MB,15360MB,15360MB
Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3
Graphics,,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivy Bridge,Intel Ivy Bridge
Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892
Monitor,,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H,DELL P2210H
Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B
OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04
Kernel,,3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.4.0-999-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0,Unity 5.10.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3
Display Driver,,intel 2.18.0,intel 2.18.0,intel 2.18.0,intel 2.18.0,intel 2.18.0
OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec),2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec),2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec),2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec),2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-137c5ec)
Compiler,,GCC 4.7.0,GCC 4.7.0,GCC 4.7.0,GCC 4.7.0,GCC 4.7.0
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080
,,"march=nocona","march=core2","march=corei7","march=corei7-avx","march=core-avx-i"
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"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,80.37,101.14,90.94,86.31,89.82
"dcraw - RAW To PPM Image Conversion (sec)",LIB,16.09,15.90,15.81,16.15,16.18
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,136,135,134,144,144
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,84,84,83,96,96
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,166,165,165,173,173
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,204,202,202,204,204
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"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,13.16,13.50,13.35,13.22,13.25
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,132.49,132.60,132.47,132.66,132.32
"Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,414.67,410.68,408.94,409.41,408.70
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,3066.14,3063.39,3060.46,3038.40,3028.57
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,25,25,25,24,25
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,10.15,10.12,10.18,10.14,10.07
"Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,24.91,26.55,26.64,27.09,27.05
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,132.95,133.03,132.44,136.93,137.13