GCC 4.8 SVN, 4.7.1, 4.6.3 - Intel Ivy Bridge
Intel Core i7-3517UE Ivy Bridge quick comparison of GCC 4.6.3, GCC 4.7.1, and GCC 4.8.0 20120817 SVN. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
GCC 4.6.3
Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
GCC 4.7.1
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0 20120817, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-lto
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Firefox was running on this system.
7-Zip Compression
Apache Benchmark
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.
Crafty
Fhourstones
GMPbench
GraphicsMagick
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.
John The Ripper
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator
Minion
NGINX Benchmark
Open FMM Nero2D
OpenSSL
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.
Tachyon
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.
Timed MAFFT Alignment
Timed MrBayes Analysis
TTSIOD 3D Renderer
VP8 libvpx Encoding
x264
GCC 4.6.3
Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.6.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
Testing initiated at 18 August 2012 08:47 by user phoronix.
GCC 4.7.1
Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-lto
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
Testing initiated at 17 August 2012 23:38 by user phoronix.
GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17
Processor: Intel Core i7-3517UE @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: CompuLab Intense-PC, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HCC54755, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n
OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.6.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-6a3ac03), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0 20120817, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Compiler Notes: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-lto
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: ondemand
System Notes: Firefox was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 17 August 2012 19:34 by user phoronix.