LLVM Clang 3.3 vs. GCC 4.8 - Intel Core-AVX2 Haswell

Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a Intel DH87RL motherboard looking at the GCC 4.7, GCC 4.8, LLVM Clang 3.2, and LLVM Clang 3.3 compiler performance with core-avx2 Haswell optimizations. Intel Core i7 Haswell core-avx2 compiler benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix by Michael Larabel.

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LLVM Clang 3.3 vs. GCC 4.8 - Intel Core-AVX2 Haswell Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a Intel DH87RL motherboard looking at the GCC 4.7, GCC 4.8, LLVM Clang 3.2, and LLVM Clang 3.3 compiler performance with core-avx2 Haswell optimizations. Intel Core i7 Haswell core-avx2 compiler benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix by Michael Larabel. ,,"GCC 4.7.3","GCC 4.8.1","LLVM Clang 3.2","LLVM Clang 3.3" Processor,,Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,Intel DH87RL,Intel DH87RL,Intel DH87RL,Intel DH87RL Chipset,,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM,Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Memory,,15360MB,15360MB,15360MB,15360MB Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,240GB OCZ VERTEX3 Graphics,,Intel Haswell Desktop,Intel Haswell Desktop,Intel Haswell Desktop,Intel Haswell Desktop Audio,,Intel Haswell HDMI,Intel Haswell HDMI,Intel Haswell HDMI,Intel Haswell HDMI Monitor,,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431 Network,,Intel Connection I217-V,Intel Connection I217-V,Intel Connection I217-V,Intel Connection I217-V OS,,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10,Ubuntu 13.10 Kernel,,3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64),3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0,Unity 7.0.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3,X Server 1.13.3 Display Driver,,intel 2.21.9,intel 2.21.9,intel 2.21.9,intel 2.21.9 OpenGL,,3.0 Mesa 9.1.3,3.0 Mesa 9.1.3,3.0 Mesa 9.1.3,3.0 Mesa 9.1.3 Compiler,,GCC 4.7.3,GCC 4.8.1,Clang 3.2 + LLVM 3.2svn,Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"GCC 4.7.3","GCC 4.8.1","LLVM Clang 3.2","LLVM Clang 3.3" "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,25,25,140,142 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,79.36,79.24,,326.85 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,93.67,78.61,31.94,34.35 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,32.92,33.30,19.59,21.03 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,21.45,17.02,27.46,27.03 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1163.52,1164.63,1670.77,1666.24 "BLAKE2 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m0 (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,5.32,5.30,7.54,7.45 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,450.21,615.32,615.04,619.77 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,5.27,5.17,5.96,6.19 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1663.97,1593.09,1532.51,1419.90 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,10.41,10.30,11.92,10.94 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,,,12.74,14.45 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1177.86,1123.80,1234.19,1263.29 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,251.67,245.00,246.79,237.86 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,631626,599455,624323,624749 "Tachyon - Total Time (sec)",LIB,,,10.44,10.98 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1861.55,1773.35,1774.03,1827.34 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,12.86,12.81,12.77,13.18 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,25743.99,25786.15,25888.95,25295.82 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,155.33,156.34,155.35,153.15