Intel Haswell GCC 4.8 core-avx2 Tuning Testing Intel Core i7 4770K with different CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to look at the core-avx2 Haswell GCC 4.8.1 compiler optimizations. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel of Phoronix for a future article.
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Intel Haswell GCC 4.8 core-avx2 Tuning Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution nocona core2 corei7 corei7-avx core-avx-i core-avx2 test Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores) Intel DH87RL Intel Haswell DRAM 15360MB 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 Intel Haswell IGP Intel Haswell HDMI VA2431 Intel Connection I217-V Ubuntu 13.04 3.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) Unity 7.0.0 X Server 1.13.3 intel 2.21.9 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel (git-a2e3b1c) GCC 4.8.1 + LLVM 3.2 ext4 1920x1080 Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores) ASRock Z77 Pro4-M 16384MB 256GB OCZ VECTOR + 2 x 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103UJ + 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080 Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI 3072MB (810/1250MHz) LCD3090WQXi Gentoo Base 2.2 3.11.0-drmfixes20130912-core-avx-i (x86_64) KDE X Server 1.14.2.902 (1.14.3 RC 2) radeon 7.2.99 3.0 Mesa 9.3.0-devel (git-f4e35f8) Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.8.1 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4svn 2560x1600 OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - nocona: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - core2: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - corei7: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - corei7-avx: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - core-avx-i: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - core-avx2: --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran - test: --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.1 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1 --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --disable-isl-version-check --disable-libgcj --disable-libssp --disable-lto --disable-werror --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-libmudflap --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-obsolete --enable-secureplt --enable-shared --enable-targets=all --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/include --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/man --with-cloog --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/python Processor Details - nocona: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - core2: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - corei7: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - corei7-avx: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - core-avx-i: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - core-avx2: Scaling Governor: acpi- freq ondemand - test: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Intel Haswell GCC 4.8 core-avx2 Tuning scimark2: Monte Carlo scimark2: Fast Fourier Transform scimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorization botan: Tiger botan: AES-256 botan: CAST-256 hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding x264: H.264 Video Encoding c-ray: Total Time ttsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping ffmpeg: H.264 HD To NTSC DV smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples apache: Static Web Page Serving nocona core2 corei7 corei7-avx core-avx-i core-avx2 test 615.33 245.07 1825.73 438.78 157.97 95.48 10.16 1517.03 76.98 97.89 115 83 157 118 156.80 23.07 122.02 12.94 26 24888.11 616.21 250.93 1859.97 438.87 158.35 95.80 10.14 1564.22 79.03 97.63 117 84 160 120 156.74 22.95 121.58 13.16 26 25606.17 616.65 249.11 1863.19 427.31 157.96 95.54 10.22 1560.18 79.64 97.77 116 84 160 120 156.06 22.95 123.14 12.93 26 25490.14 616.65 251.86 1851.10 442.47 158.19 95.77 10.62 1404.92 80.91 98.10 122 96 166 119 155.63 22.84 117.71 12.86 26 25580.44 615.76 247.35 1824.28 440.37 158.31 95.79 10.45 1630.12 81.06 97.85 122 96 167 120 156.08 22.83 116.54 13.00 26 25549.84 596.16 226.57 1817.03 424.56 158.43 95.76 10.55 1282.30 80.66 97.25 138 136 182 121 155.18 17.02 119.78 13.01 24 25644.10 553.48 339.88 2386.29 10.13 1686.65 59.51 89.94 132 83 161 123 158.19 27.78 148.75 11.86 87 23897.32 OpenBenchmarking.org
SciMark Computational Test: Monte Carlo OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo corei7-avx corei7 core2 core-avx-i nocona core-avx2 test 130 260 390 520 650 SE +/- 0.44, N = 4 SE +/- 0.44, N = 4 SE +/- 0.51, N = 4 SE +/- 0.44, N = 4 SE +/- 0.72, N = 4 SE +/- 20.17, N = 8 SE +/- 0.00, N = 4 616.65 616.65 616.21 615.76 615.33 596.16 553.48
SciMark Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform test corei7-avx core2 corei7 core-avx-i nocona core-avx2 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.34, N = 4 SE +/- 1.22, N = 4 SE +/- 0.67, N = 4 SE +/- 0.86, N = 4 SE +/- 2.13, N = 4 SE +/- 2.50, N = 4 SE +/- 2.02, N = 4 339.88 251.86 250.93 249.11 247.35 245.07 226.57
SciMark Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization OpenBenchmarking.org Mflops, More Is Better SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization test corei7 core2 corei7-avx nocona core-avx-i core-avx2 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 3.08, N = 4 SE +/- 3.12, N = 4 SE +/- 5.53, N = 4 SE +/- 22.67, N = 4 SE +/- 21.90, N = 4 SE +/- 23.35, N = 4 SE +/- 28.95, N = 4 2386.29 1863.19 1859.97 1851.10 1825.73 1824.28 1817.03
Botan Test: Tiger OpenBenchmarking.org Mbytes/s, More Is Better Botan 1.10.3 Test: Tiger corei7-avx core-avx-i core2 nocona corei7 core-avx2 100 200 300 400 500 442.47 440.37 438.87 438.78 427.31 424.56 1. (CXX) g++ options: -m64 -ldl -lpthread -lrt -O2
Botan Test: AES-256 OpenBenchmarking.org Mbytes/s, More Is Better Botan 1.10.3 Test: AES-256 core-avx2 core2 core-avx-i corei7-avx nocona corei7 40 80 120 160 200 158.43 158.35 158.31 158.19 157.97 157.96 1. (CXX) g++ options: -m64 -ldl -lpthread -lrt -O2
Botan Test: CAST-256 OpenBenchmarking.org Mbytes/s, More Is Better Botan 1.10.3 Test: CAST-256 core2 core-avx-i corei7-avx core-avx2 corei7 nocona 20 40 60 80 100 95.80 95.79 95.77 95.76 95.54 95.48 1. (CXX) g++ options: -m64 -ldl -lpthread -lrt -O2
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search test core2 nocona corei7 core-avx-i core-avx2 corei7-avx 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.17, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 10.13 10.14 10.16 10.22 10.45 10.55 10.62 -O2 -O3 -march=core2 -O3 -march=nocona -O3 -march=corei7 -O3 -march=core-avx-i -O3 -march=core-avx2 -O3 -march=corei7-avx 1. (CC) gcc options: -pthread -lhmmer -lsquid -lm
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver test core-avx-i core2 corei7 nocona corei7-avx core-avx2 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 0.98, N = 3 SE +/- 1.05, N = 3 SE +/- 3.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.75, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 SE +/- 105.46, N = 6 SE +/- 19.87, N = 6 1686.65 1630.12 1564.22 1560.18 1517.03 1404.92 1282.30 -march=core-avx-i -march=core2 -march=corei7 -march=nocona -march=corei7-avx -march=core-avx2 1. (CC) gcc options: -O3
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile test nocona core2 corei7 core-avx2 corei7-avx core-avx-i 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 SE +/- 0.32, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.31, N = 3 59.51 76.98 79.03 79.64 80.66 80.91 81.06
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile test core-avx2 core2 corei7 core-avx-i nocona corei7-avx 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.79, N = 3 SE +/- 0.60, N = 3 SE +/- 0.54, N = 3 SE +/- 0.69, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 SE +/- 0.54, N = 3 89.94 97.25 97.63 97.77 97.85 97.89 98.10
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur core-avx2 test core-avx-i corei7-avx core2 corei7 nocona 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 1.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 138 132 122 122 117 116 115 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ljbig -O2 -llcms2 -ltiff -lfreetype -lxml2 -lrt -O3 -march=core-avx-i -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7-avx -ljbig -O3 -march=core2 -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7 -ljbig -O3 -march=nocona -ljbig 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen core-avx2 core-avx-i corei7-avx corei7 core2 test nocona 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 136 96 96 84 84 83 83 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ljbig -O3 -march=core-avx-i -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7-avx -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7 -ljbig -O3 -march=core2 -ljbig -O2 -llcms2 -ltiff -lfreetype -lxml2 -lrt -O3 -march=nocona -ljbig 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing core-avx2 core-avx-i corei7-avx test corei7 core2 nocona 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 182 167 166 161 160 160 157 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ljbig -O3 -march=core-avx-i -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7-avx -ljbig -O2 -llcms2 -ltiff -lfreetype -lxml2 -lrt -O3 -march=corei7 -ljbig -O3 -march=core2 -ljbig -O3 -march=nocona -ljbig 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -lpthread
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding test core-avx2 core-avx-i corei7 core2 corei7-avx nocona 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 123 121 120 120 120 119 118 -O2 -llcms2 -ltiff -lfreetype -lxml2 -lrt -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ljbig -O3 -march=core-avx-i -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7 -ljbig -O3 -march=core2 -ljbig -O3 -march=corei7-avx -ljbig -O3 -march=nocona -ljbig 1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -pthread -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lm -lpthread
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding test nocona core2 core-avx-i corei7 corei7-avx core-avx2 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.52, N = 5 SE +/- 0.30, N = 5 SE +/- 0.55, N = 5 SE +/- 0.50, N = 5 SE +/- 0.51, N = 5 SE +/- 0.20, N = 5 SE +/- 0.90, N = 5 158.19 156.80 156.74 156.08 156.06 155.63 155.18 -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale -march=nocona -march=core2 -march=core-avx-i -march=corei7 -march=corei7-avx -march=core-avx2 1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time core-avx2 core-avx-i corei7-avx core2 corei7 nocona test 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 17.02 22.83 22.84 22.95 22.95 23.07 27.78 -march=core-avx2 -march=core-avx-i -march=corei7-avx -march=core2 -march=corei7 -march=nocona 1. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
TTSIOD 3D Renderer Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping OpenBenchmarking.org FPS, More Is Better TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping test corei7 nocona core2 core-avx2 corei7-avx core-avx-i 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 SE +/- 0.76, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 SE +/- 0.66, N = 3 SE +/- 0.36, N = 3 148.75 123.14 122.02 121.58 119.78 117.71 116.54 -lpthread -march=corei7 -flto -march=nocona -flto -march=core2 -flto -march=core-avx2 -flto -march=corei7-avx -flto -march=core-avx-i -flto 1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -msse -mrecip -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mssse3 -lSDL -lstdc++
FFmpeg H.264 HD To NTSC DV OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV test corei7-avx corei7 nocona core-avx-i core-avx2 core2 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 11.86 12.86 12.93 12.94 13.00 13.01 13.16 -lva -lpthread -lrt -march=corei7-avx -march=corei7 -march=nocona -march=core-avx-i -march=core-avx2 -march=core2 1. (CC) gcc options: -lavdevice -lavfilter -lavformat -lavcodec -lswresample -lswscale -lavutil -ldl -lasound -lSDL -lm -pthread -lbz2 -std=c99 -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -fno-tree-vectorize -MMD -MF -MT
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples core-avx2 nocona core2 corei7 corei7-avx core-avx-i test 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 24 26 26 26 26 26 87 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -O3 -march=nocona -O3 -march=core2 -O3 -march=corei7 -O3 -march=corei7-avx -O3 -march=core-avx-i 1. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving core-avx2 core2 corei7-avx core-avx-i corei7 nocona test 5K 10K 15K 20K 25K SE +/- 170.85, N = 3 SE +/- 229.80, N = 3 SE +/- 178.37, N = 3 SE +/- 126.25, N = 3 SE +/- 193.34, N = 3 SE +/- 107.43, N = 3 SE +/- 94.17, N = 3 25644.10 25606.17 25580.44 25549.84 25490.14 24888.11 23897.32 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -O3 -march=core2 -O3 -march=corei7-avx -O3 -march=core-avx-i -O3 -march=corei7 -O3 -march=nocona -O2 1. (CC) gcc options: -shared -fPIC -pthread
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