LLVM Clang 3.4 Intel Core i7 Haswell Core-AVX2

Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell testing of GCC 4.8.1 and an early GCC 4.9.0 compiler snapshot along with LLVM Clang 3.3 and an LLVM Clang 3.4 development 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

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GCC 4.8.1

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

GCC 4.9.0 20130623

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: GCC 4.9.0 20130623 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

LLVM Clang 3.3

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: Optimized build; Built Jun 20 2013 (17:06:21); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: Clang 3.4 (SVN 185044) + LLVM 3.4svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: Optimized build; Built Jun 26 2013 (19:58:17); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

LLVM Clang 3.4 Intel Core i7 Haswell Core-AVX2OpenBenchmarking.orgPhoronix Test SuiteIntel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores)Intel DH87RLIntel 4th Gen Core DRAM15360MB240GB OCZ VERTEX3Intel Haswell DesktopIntel Haswell HDMIVA2431Intel Connection I217-VUbuntu 13.103.10.0-999-generic (x86_64)KDE 4.10.4X Server 1.13.3intel 2.21.93.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57)GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3GCC 4.9.0 20130623 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3Clang 3.4 (SVN 185044) + LLVM 3.4svnext41920x1080ProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioMonitorNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLCompilersFile-SystemScreen ResolutionLLVM Clang 3.4 Intel Core I7 Haswell Core-AVX2 BenchmarksSystem Logs- GCC 4.8.1: --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran- GCC 4.9.0 20130623: --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - LLVM Clang 3.3: Optimized build; Built Jun 20 2013 (17:06:21); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64 - LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626: Optimized build; Built Jun 26 2013 (19:58:17); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64 - Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626Logarithmic Result OverviewPhoronix Test SuiteSmallptN-QueensPrimesieveTimed ImageMagick CompilationGraphicsMagickC-RayHimeno BenchmarkBLAKE2FLAC Audio EncodingSciMarkTimed MAFFT AlignmentTimed HMMer Searchx264

LLVM Clang 3.4 Intel Core i7 Haswell Core-AVX2blake2: Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1c-ray: Total Timeencode-flac: WAV To FLACgraphics-magick: Resizinghimeno: Poisson Pressure Solvern-queens: Elapsed Timeprimesieve: 1e12 Prime Number Generationscimark2: Compositescimark2: Fast Fourier Transformscimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiplyscimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorizationscimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxationsmallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Sampleshmmer: Pfam Database Searchbuild-imagemagick: Time To Compilemafft: Multiple Sequence Alignmentx264: H.264 Video EncodingGCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 201306265.7117.065.371751048.7736.6979.171009.99242.661204.001825.431169.092510.4779.185.47156.265.2917.035.261811588.3736.7279.201005.56248.011148.951851.861170.182510.4074.595.52155.677.4027.065.64911586.39184.28323.371102.35249.831228.191755.851673.0514010.8134.396.09155.017.8126.224.55911395.01186.32320.231204.77239.901182.302397.891613.3214010.7034.375.98152.82OpenBenchmarking.org

BLAKE2

OpenBenchmarking.orgCycles Per Byte, Fewer Is BetterBLAKE2 20121223Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623246810SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 37.817.405.715.291. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -O3 -march=native -lcrypto -lz

C-Ray

This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeLLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623612182430SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 327.0626.2217.0617.031. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3 -march=core-avx2

FLAC Audio Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterFLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0WAV To FLACLLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM 3.4 SVN 201306261.2692.5383.8075.0766.345SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.00, N = 5SE +/- 0.00, N = 55.645.375.264.551. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2 -fvisibility=hidden -logg -lm

GraphicsMagick

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.16Operation: ResizingLLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 201306234080120160200SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 2.73, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 39191175181-std=gnu99 -fopenmp-std=gnu99 -fopenmp1. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=core-avx2 -pthread -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lz -lm -lpthread

Himeno Benchmark

The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure SolverGCC 4.8.1LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.9.0 2013062330060090012001500SE +/- 5.10, N = 3SE +/- 82.18, N = 6SE +/- 0.45, N = 3SE +/- 2.58, N = 31048.771395.011586.391588.371. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

N-Queens

This is a test of the OpenMP version of a test that solves the N-queens problem. The board problem size is 18. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterN-Queens 1.0Elapsed TimeLLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.14080120160200SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3186.32184.2836.7236.691. (CC) gcc options: -static -fopenmp -O3 -march=core-avx2

Primesieve

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPrimesieve 4.21e12 Prime Number GenerationLLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.170140210280350SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.41, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.14, N = 3323.37320.2379.2079.17-fopenmp-fopenmp1. (CXX) g++ options: -O2

SciMark

This test runs the ANSI C version of SciMark 2.0, which is a benchmark for scientific and numerical computing developed by programmers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This test is made up of Fast Foruier Transform, Jacobi Successive Over-relaxation, Monte Carlo, Sparse Matrix Multiply, and dense LU matrix factorization benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: CompositeGCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.1LLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 2013062630060090012001500SE +/- 0.86, N = 4SE +/- 3.60, N = 4SE +/- 1.35, N = 4SE +/- 1.71, N = 41005.561009.991102.351204.771. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Fast Fourier TransformLLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM Clang 3.350100150200250SE +/- 0.81, N = 3SE +/- 2.71, N = 4SE +/- 0.51, N = 4SE +/- 0.21, N = 4239.90242.66248.01249.831. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Sparse Matrix MultiplyGCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.8.1LLVM Clang 3.330060090012001500SE +/- 1.61, N = 4SE +/- 8.53, N = 4SE +/- 8.39, N = 4SE +/- 1.06, N = 41148.951182.301204.001228.191. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix FactorizationLLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM 3.4 SVN 201306265001000150020002500SE +/- 2.77, N = 4SE +/- 17.54, N = 4SE +/- 2.63, N = 4SE +/- 26.35, N = 41755.851825.431851.862397.891. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-RelaxationGCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3400800120016002000SE +/- 3.34, N = 4SE +/- 0.00, N = 4SE +/- 20.67, N = 4SE +/- 1.32, N = 41169.091170.181613.321673.051. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -march=core-avx2

Smallpt

Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterSmallpt 1.0Global Illumination Renderer; 100 SamplesLLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.1306090120150SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 314014025251. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp -O3 -march=core-avx2

Timed HMMer Search

This test searches through the Pfam database of profile hidden markov models. The search finds the domain structure of Drosophila Sevenless protein. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed HMMer Search 2.3.2Pfam Database SearchLLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 201306233691215SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 310.8110.7010.4710.401. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -march=core-avx2 -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm

Timed ImageMagick Compilation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10Time To CompileGCC 4.8.1GCC 4.9.0 20130623LLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 2013062620406080100SE +/- 0.28, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 379.1874.5934.3934.37

Timed MAFFT Alignment

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed MAFFT Alignment 6.864Multiple Sequence AlignmentLLVM Clang 3.3LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626GCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.1246810SE +/- 0.10, N = 6SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 6SE +/- 0.13, N = 66.095.985.525.471. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -lm -lpthread

x264

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2013-06-08H.264 Video EncodingLLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626LLVM Clang 3.3GCC 4.9.0 20130623GCC 4.8.1306090120150SE +/- 0.51, N = 5SE +/- 0.15, N = 5SE +/- 0.90, N = 5SE +/- 0.79, N = 5152.82155.01155.67156.261. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -march=core-avx2 -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize

GCC 4.8.1

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

Testing initiated at 26 June 2013 10:00 by user phoronix.

GCC 4.9.0 20130623

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: GCC 4.9.0 20130623 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

Testing initiated at 25 June 2013 22:57 by user phoronix.

LLVM Clang 3.3

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: Optimized build; Built Jun 20 2013 (17:06:21); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

Testing initiated at 27 June 2013 04:38 by user phoronix.

LLVM 3.4 SVN 20130626

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel DH87RL, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Haswell Desktop, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Intel Connection I217-V

OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.9, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-bbd2d57), Compiler: Clang 3.4 (SVN 185044) + LLVM 3.4svn, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Compiler Notes: Optimized build; Built Jun 26 2013 (19:58:17); Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; Host CPU: x86-64
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

Testing initiated at 26 June 2013 21:43 by user phoronix.