Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell testing of GCC 4.8.1 and an early GCC 4.9.0 compiler snapshot. Testing with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS for the Intel Core i7 Haswell CPU of -O3 and -march=core-avx2. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on phoronix.com
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1306266-SO-GCC49INTE20
GCC 4.9 Intel Core i7 Haswell Core-AVX2,
"Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",25921.11,25285.48,25039.66
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",25548.09,26007.68,25942.92
"N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",36.774,36.669,36.638
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",36.695,36.699,36.776
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",5.3901250362396,5.3621978759766,5.3731441497803,5.373820066452,5.36980509758
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",5.2490928173065,5.2600109577179,5.2600209712982,5.2664349079132,5.2714879512787
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",25,25,25
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",25,25,25
"Primesieve 4.2 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",79.453,78.9942,79.0741
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",79.2875,79.1475,79.1766
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",17.06,17.062,17.065
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",17.038,17.026,17.02
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",97.486209869385,95.671014785767,95.985220193863
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",99.086805105209,97.257725000381,96.851665019989
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",79.740069150925,78.986654996872,78.822968006134
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",74.693930864334,74.369086027145,74.715671062469
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",1039.630218,1049.415162,1057.277677
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",1584.779908,1593.367675,1586.94961
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",118,118,119
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",120,119,120
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: HWB Color Space",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",207,205,205
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",208,209,207
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",179,170,177
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",181,181,181
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",134,134,135
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",135,135,135
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 - Operation: Blur",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",137,137,137
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",137,137,137
"x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",155.34,157.68,157.37,157.32,153.57
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",153.31,156.16,153.8,157.52,157.58
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",1165.73,1161.31,1174.66,1174.66
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",1170.18,1170.18,1170.18,1170.18
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",1820.25,1851.85,1851.85,1777.78
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",1858.3,1851.85,1851.85,1845.44
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",1204.71,1180.4,1219.05,1211.83
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",1150.56,1150.56,1150.56,1144.13
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",242.39,235.07,246.58,246.58
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",247.29,248.01,249.46,247.29
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",610.08,604.92,610.08,610.08
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",608.35,608.35,610.08,608.35
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",1008.63,1006.71,1020.44,1004.19
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",1006.94,1005.79,1006.43,1003.08
"BLAKE2 20121223 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",5.57,5.86,5.71
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",5.29,5.29,5.28
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",5.2279810905457,5.2965588569641,5.8318159580231,5.2916338443756,5.9259641170502,5.2574329376221
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",5.980525970459,5.9247810840607,5.2359747886658,5.5863177776337,5.2672588825226,5.1413369178772
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.8.1",10.465559005737,10.457128047943,10.479081869125
"GCC 4.9.0 20130623",10.458160877228,10.372681856155,10.369724035263