AMD FX-8350 Piledriver Multi-Core Scaling AMD FX-8350 Vishera Piledriver benchmarking of the eight-core processor when testing with exposing 2, 4, 6, and 8 cores. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. 2 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 4 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 6 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 8 Cores: 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: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD 2x 2352: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2352 @ 2.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S2932/S2932-E/S2932-SI, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500630A + 60GB Toshiba MKNSSDCR60GB + 500GB Seagate ST3500320AS, Graphics: NVIDIA Device 1205, Audio: C-Media CM8738 OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.1.10-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.00, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, OpenGL: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.10), Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Clang 3.1 (SVN 157047) + LLVM 3.1 + CUDA 4.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 52.91 |=============== 4 Cores . 107.09 |=============================== 6 Cores . 158.70 |============================================== 8 Cores . 211.05 |============================================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 1979.00 |======================================= 4 Cores . 2881.42 |========================================================= 6 Cores . 3042.23 |============================================================ 8 Cores . 2859.67 |======================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 3217.42 |===================== 4 Cores . 5976.27 |======================================= 6 Cores . 7856.37 |=================================================== 8 Cores . 9210.72 |============================================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 1.66 |=================================== 4 Cores . 2.69 |======================================================== 6 Cores . 3.03 |=============================================================== 8 Cores . 2.95 |============================================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 34.48 |========================================================== 4 Cores ..... 21.58 |==================================== 6 Cores ..... 13.68 |======================= 8 Cores ..... 11.63 |==================== AMD 2x 2352 . 22.70 |====================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 40.94 |===================== 4 Cores . 69.00 |==================================== 6 Cores . 96.26 |================================================== 8 Cores . 117.67 |============================================================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 12.33 |================================ 4 Cores . 19.20 |================================================== 6 Cores . 22.57 |=========================================================== 8 Cores . 23.60 |============================================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 43.98 |================= 4 Cores . 84.11 |================================= 6 Cores . 121.72 |================================================ 8 Cores . 156.02 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 58 |===================================== 4 Cores . 81 |==================================================== 6 Cores . 93 |============================================================ 8 Cores . 100 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 24 |======================= 4 Cores . 42 |========================================= 6 Cores . 55 |===================================================== 8 Cores . 67 |================================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 78 |====================================== 4 Cores . 108 |==================================================== 6 Cores . 123 |============================================================ 8 Cores . 132 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 130 |==================================================== 4 Cores . 148 |=========================================================== 6 Cores . 157 |============================================================== 8 Cores . 161 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 54 |================================= 4 Cores . 80 |================================================ 6 Cores . 96 |========================================================== 8 Cores . 106 |================================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ..... 571.34 |==================================================== 4 Cores ..... 590.75 |====================================================== 6 Cores ..... 627.59 |========================================================= 8 Cores ..... 628.96 |========================================================= AMD 2x 2352 . 325.64 |============================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 301.16 |========================================================= 4 Cores ..... 155.03 |============================= 6 Cores ..... 106.55 |==================== 8 Cores ..... 82.84 |================ AMD 2x 2352 . 190.71 |==================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 125.03 |========================================================= 4 Cores ..... 62.45 |============================ 6 Cores ..... 41.65 |=================== 8 Cores ..... 31.27 |============== AMD 2x 2352 . 79.93 |==================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 31.19 |========================================================== 4 Cores ..... 16.02 |============================== 6 Cores ..... 10.55 |==================== 8 Cores ..... 8.13 |=============== AMD 2x 2352 . 24.85 |============================================== Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 665.46 |========================================================= 4 Cores ..... 333.28 |============================= 6 Cores ..... 222.42 |=================== 8 Cores ..... 166.85 |============== AMD 2x 2352 . 88.87 |======== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ..... 369 |============================================================ 4 Cores ..... 184 |============================== 6 Cores ..... 123 |==================== 8 Cores ..... 92 |=============== AMD 2x 2352 . 156 |========================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ..... 949.92 |===================== 4 Cores ..... 1512.24 |================================= 6 Cores ..... 2457.71 |====================================================== 8 Cores ..... 2532.85 |======================================================== AMD 2x 2352 . 1117.15 |=========================