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. 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 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 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 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 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 Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better core-avx-i . 156 |=========================================================== corei7-avx . 159 |============================================================ corei7 ..... 158 |============================================================ core2 ...... 158 |============================================================ nocona ..... 161 |============================================================= Primesieve 4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better core-avx-i . 337.92 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 350.23 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 337.79 |======================================================== core2 ...... 337.92 |======================================================== nocona ..... 347.16 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better core-avx-i . 116.04 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 120.09 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 114.60 |======================================================= core2 ...... 114.58 |======================================================= nocona ..... 116.25 |======================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better core-avx-i . 98.26 |=========================================================== corei7-avx . 98.68 |=========================================================== corei7 ..... 97.53 |========================================================== core2 ...... 96.97 |========================================================== nocona ..... 92.63 |======================================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better core-avx-i . 210.73 |========================================================= corei7-avx . 214.94 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 209.03 |======================================================== core2 ...... 207.91 |======================================================== nocona ..... 208.36 |======================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 748.43 |======================================================= corei7-avx . 775.48 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 782.06 |========================================================= core2 ...... 780.98 |========================================================= nocona ..... 789.23 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 39 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 37 |=========================================================== corei7 ..... 39 |============================================================== core2 ...... 39 |============================================================== nocona ..... 39 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 82 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 81 |============================================================= corei7 ..... 81 |============================================================= core2 ...... 81 |============================================================= nocona ..... 81 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 64 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 64 |============================================================== corei7 ..... 60 |========================================================== core2 ...... 60 |========================================================== nocona ..... 60 |========================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 29 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 29 |============================================================== corei7 ..... 25 |===================================================== core2 ...... 25 |===================================================== nocona ..... 25 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 54 |============================================================== corei7-avx . 54 |============================================================== corei7 ..... 49 |======================================================== core2 ...... 49 |======================================================== nocona ..... 49 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 541.19 |========================================================== corei7-avx . 541.19 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 540.24 |========================================================== core2 ...... 541.67 |========================================================== nocona ..... 540.24 |========================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 1049.87 |========================================================= corei7-avx . 1048.84 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 1048.84 |========================================================= core2 ...... 1050.91 |========================================================= nocona ..... 1048.84 |========================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 1019.98 |======================================================== corei7-avx . 1040.26 |========================================================= corei7 ..... 1012.89 |======================================================= core2 ...... 1041.58 |========================================================= nocona ..... 1019.31 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 165.66 |======================================================= corei7-avx . 169.61 |======================================================== corei7 ..... 174.98 |========================================================== core2 ...... 173.95 |========================================================== nocona ..... 174.14 |========================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 249.15 |========================================================= corei7-avx . 255.05 |========================================================== corei7 ..... 255.65 |========================================================== core2 ...... 255.35 |========================================================== nocona ..... 255.65 |========================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better core-avx-i . 13515077.97 |================================================== corei7-avx . 13512334.27 |================================================== corei7 ..... 13509564.57 |================================================== core2 ...... 13510151.40 |================================================== nocona ..... 14277095.27 |=====================================================