GCC 4.8 Intel Ivy Bridge Optimizations Intel Core i3-3217U Ivy Bridge from ASUS Intel Ultrabook testing GCC 4.8 compiler x86_64 optimizations on Ubuntu 13.04. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. nocona: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-4e8f5c5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 core2: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-4e8f5c5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 corei7: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-4e8f5c5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 corei7-avx: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-4e8f5c5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 core-avx-i: Processor: Intel Core i3-3217U @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K56CA v1.0, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505 + 24GB SanDisk SSD i100, Graphics: Intel 3rd Gen Core, Audio: Realtek ALC270, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.9.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: intel 2.21.4, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0 (git-4e8f5c5), Compiler: GCC 4.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 14277095.27 |===================================================== core2 ...... 13510151.40 |================================================== corei7 ..... 13509564.57 |================================================== corei7-avx . 13512334.27 |================================================== core-avx-i . 13515077.97 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 255.65 |========================================================== core2 ...... 255.35 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 255.65 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 255.05 |========================================================== core-avx-i . 249.15 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 174.14 |========================================================== core2 ...... 173.95 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 174.98 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 169.61 |======================================================== core-avx-i . 165.66 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 1019.31 |======================================================== core2 ...... 1041.58 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 1012.89 |======================================================= corei7-avx . 1040.26 |========================================================= core-avx-i . 1019.98 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 1048.84 |========================================================= core2 ...... 1050.91 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 1048.84 |========================================================= corei7-avx . 1048.84 |========================================================= core-avx-i . 1049.87 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 540.24 |========================================================== core2 ...... 541.67 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 540.24 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 541.19 |========================================================== core-avx-i . 541.19 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 49 |======================================================== core2 ...... 49 |======================================================== corei7 ..... 49 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 54 |============================================================== core-avx-i . 54 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 25 |===================================================== core2 ...... 25 |===================================================== corei7 ..... 25 |===================================================== corei7-avx . 29 |============================================================== core-avx-i . 29 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 60 |========================================================== core2 ...... 60 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 60 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 64 |============================================================== core-avx-i . 64 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 81 |============================================================= core2 ...... 81 |============================================================= corei7 ..... 81 |============================================================= corei7-avx . 81 |============================================================= core-avx-i . 82 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 39 |============================================================== core2 ...... 39 |============================================================== corei7 ..... 39 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 37 |=========================================================== core-avx-i . 39 |============================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better nocona ..... 789.23 |========================================================== core2 ...... 780.98 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 782.06 |========================================================= corei7-avx . 775.48 |========================================================= core-avx-i . 748.43 |======================================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better nocona ..... 208.36 |======================================================== core2 ...... 207.91 |======================================================== corei7 ..... 209.03 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 214.94 |========================================================== core-avx-i . 210.73 |========================================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better nocona ..... 92.63 |======================================================= core2 ...... 96.97 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 97.53 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 98.68 |=========================================================== core-avx-i . 98.26 |=========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better nocona ..... 116.25 |======================================================== core2 ...... 114.58 |======================================================= corei7 ..... 114.60 |======================================================= corei7-avx . 120.09 |========================================================== core-avx-i . 116.04 |======================================================== Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better nocona ..... 347.16 |========================================================= core2 ...... 337.92 |======================================================== corei7 ..... 337.79 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 350.23 |========================================================== core-avx-i . 337.92 |======================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better nocona ..... 161 |============================================================= core2 ...... 158 |============================================================ corei7 ..... 158 |============================================================ corei7-avx . 159 |============================================================ core-avx-i . 156 |===========================================================