AMD FX-8350 Open64 bdver2 Compiler Tuning AMD FX-8350 Piledriver Eight-Core processor running Ubuntu 12.10 with the Linux 3.5 kernel while testing the latest AMD Open64 compiler at the time of the 2012 FX Vishera CPU Launch. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix for a future article looking at AMD Piledriver compiler tuning with -march=bdver2 relative to -march=bdver1 and other AMD x86-64 CPU micro-architecture targets for the AMD Open64 compiler. k8: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: Open64 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 barcelona: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: Open64 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 bdver1: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: Open64 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 bdver2: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: Open64 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better k8 ........ 11.03 |========================================================== barcelona . 11.10 |========================================================== bdver1 .... 11.42 |============================================================ bdver2 .... 11.10 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 121 |============================================================== barcelona . 118 |============================================================ bdver1 .... 115 |=========================================================== bdver2 .... 120 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 111 |============================================================ barcelona . 100 |====================================================== bdver1 .... 114 |============================================================== bdver2 .... 114 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 154 |============================================================== barcelona . 151 |============================================================ bdver1 .... 155 |============================================================== bdver2 .... 154 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 164 |=========================================================== barcelona . 172 |============================================================== bdver1 .... 170 |============================================================= bdver2 .... 170 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 105 |============================================================ barcelona . 107 |============================================================= bdver1 .... 108 |============================================================== bdver2 .... 108 |============================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 404.97 |======================================================= barcelona . 408.56 |======================================================== bdver1 .... 431.60 |=========================================================== bdver2 .... 419.61 |========================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better k8 ........ 36.08 |================================================ barcelona . 36.56 |================================================ bdver1 .... 45.44 |============================================================ bdver2 .... 45.09 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better k8 ........ 51.11 |============================================================ barcelona . 42.69 |================================================== bdver1 .... 39.44 |============================================== bdver2 .... 39.46 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better k8 ........ 7.63 |========================================================== barcelona . 8.03 |============================================================= bdver1 .... 7.42 |======================================================== bdver2 .... 7.43 |======================================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better bdver2 . 12.42 |=============================================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better k8 ........ 528.74 |================================== barcelona . 915.99 |=========================================================== bdver1 .... 848.69 |======================================================= bdver2 .... 852.26 |======================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better k8 ........ 21409.72 |========================================================= barcelona . 21206.71 |======================================================== bdver1 .... 21143.41 |======================================================== bdver2 .... 21391.37 |=========================================================