AMD A10-6800K Compiler GCC vs. LLVM/Clang Performance
AMD A10-6800K Richland APU testing of GCC 4.8.1 and LLVM Clang 3.3 Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
GCC 4.8.1
Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
LLVM Clang 3.3
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: Clang 3.3-2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
1306306-SO-RICHLANDG80-vs-8120
Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 20GB INTEL SSDSA2VP02 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00L + 300GB Maxtor 6V300F0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (835/2050MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 16 HDMI/DP, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-49-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Openbox 3.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernow-k8 ondemand
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.
GraphicsMagick
Primesieve
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.
Apache Benchmark
GraphicsMagick
Botan
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.
FFmpeg
GraphicsMagick
Botan
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.
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.
GraphicsMagick
Botan
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Botan
FLAC Audio Encoding
GraphicsMagick
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.
Timed MAFFT Alignment
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.
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.
x264
BLAKE2
GCC 4.8.1
Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v
Testing initiated at 29 June 2013 16:33 by user phoronix.
LLVM Clang 3.3
Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 8670D 768MB (844/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168
OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.9.0-6-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: fglrx 13.10.10, OpenGL: 4.2.12337, Compiler: Clang 3.3-2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Testing initiated at 30 June 2013 11:11 by user phoronix.
1306306-SO-RICHLANDG80-vs-8120
Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.10GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 20GB INTEL SSDSA2VP02 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00L + 300GB Maxtor 6V300F0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (835/2050MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GPU 16 HDMI/DP, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-49-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Openbox 3.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: powernow-k8 ondemand
Testing initiated at 7 July 2013 02:06 by user ansgar.