GCC 4.9 Compiler Optimization Tuning AMD Kaveri

AMD Steamroller CPU Cores on AMD A10-7850K Kaveri APU compiler optimization tuning with various march= values. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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GCC 4.9 Compiler Optimization Tuning AMD KaveriProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioMonitorNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay DriverCompilerFile-SystemScreen Resolutionk8barcelonabdver1bdver2bdver3AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores)Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3HAMD Device 14227168MB120GB KINGSTON SV300S3AMD Kaveri 1024MBATI R6xx HDMITSB-TVRealtek RTL8111/8168/8411Ubuntu 14.043.13.0-5-generic (x86_64)Unity 7.1.2radeon 7.2.99GCC 4.9.0 20140126 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4ext41920x1080OpenBenchmarking.orgKernel Details- radeon.dpm=1Compiler Details- --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --enable-languages=c,c++,fortranProcessor Details- Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

GCC 4.9 Compiler Optimization Tuning AMD Kaveriencode-flac: WAV To FLACc-ray: Total Timebuild-php: Time To Compilebuild-apache: Time To Compilehimeno: Poisson Pressure Solvergraphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholdinggraphics-magick: HWB Color Spacegraphics-magick: Resizinggraphics-magick: Sharpengraphics-magick: Blurx264: H.264 Video Encodingtscp: AI Chess Performancescimark2: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxationscimark2: Dense LU Matrix Factorizationscimark2: Sparse Matrix Multiplyscimark2: Fast Fourier Transformscimark2: Monte Carloscimark2: Compositek8barcelonabdver1bdver2bdver36.6287.9056.5458.55867.3677126106719783.43760113689.021156.29865.9273.59397.86636.546.9053.3356.6058.68898.3376138120729383.66742690688.881155.51849.3468.99384.47629.445.2940.6758.4559.07894.27811391338710884.14738311687.761162.41860.4168.50423.73640.565.4740.5558.5458.91905.30811391338111083.85738707687.471164.64877.9171.15423.28644.895.5240.5458.4858.83902.98801391338110683.83739101688.081165.94866.8170.77413.64641.05OpenBenchmarking.org

FLAC Audio Encoding

WAV To FLAC

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterFLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0WAV To FLACbdver1bdver2bdver3k8barcelona246810SE +/- 0.02, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 5SE +/- 0.02, N = 5SE +/- 0.02, N = 5SE +/- 0.01, N = 55.295.475.526.626.90-march=bdver1-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fvisibility=hidden -logg -lm

C-Ray

Total Time

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total Timebdver3bdver2bdver1barcelonak820406080100SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 340.5440.5540.6753.3387.90-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=barcelona-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

Timed PHP Compilation

Time To Compile

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed PHP Compilation 5.2.9Time To Compilek8barcelonabdver1bdver3bdver21326395265SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 356.5456.6058.4558.4858.54-march=k8-march=barcelona-march=bdver1-march=bdver3-march=bdver21. (CC) gcc options: -O3 -pedantic -ldl -lz -lm

Timed Apache Compilation

Time To Compile

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Apache Compilation 2.4.7Time To Compilek8barcelonabdver3bdver2bdver11326395265SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.21, N = 358.5558.6858.8358.9159.07

Himeno Benchmark

Poisson Pressure Solver

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure Solverbdver2bdver3barcelonabdver1k82004006008001000SE +/- 1.51, N = 3SE +/- 3.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 9.68, N = 3SE +/- 6.79, N = 3905.30902.98898.33894.27867.36-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=barcelona-march=bdver1-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -O3

GraphicsMagick

Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.19Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholdingbdver2bdver1bdver3k8barcelona20406080100SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 38181807776-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=bdver3-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -pthread -ljbig -lwebp -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpthread

GraphicsMagick

Operation: HWB Color Space

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.19Operation: HWB Color Spacebdver3bdver2bdver1barcelonak8306090120150SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3139139139138126-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=barcelona-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -pthread -ljbig -lwebp -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpthread

GraphicsMagick

Operation: Resizing

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.19Operation: Resizingbdver3bdver2bdver1barcelonak8306090120150SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3133133133120106-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=barcelona-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -pthread -ljbig -lwebp -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpthread

GraphicsMagick

Operation: Sharpen

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.19Operation: Sharpenbdver1bdver3bdver2barcelonak820406080100SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 38781817271-march=bdver1-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=barcelona-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -pthread -ljbig -lwebp -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpthread

GraphicsMagick

Operation: Blur

OpenBenchmarking.orgIterations Per Minute, More Is BetterGraphicsMagick 1.3.19Operation: Blurbdver2bdver1bdver3k8barcelona20406080100SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 31101081069793-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=bdver3-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CC) gcc options: -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -O3 -pthread -ljbig -lwebp -ljpeg -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpthread

x264

H.264 Video Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2014-01-09H.264 Video Encodingbdver1bdver2bdver3barcelonak820406080100SE +/- 0.73, N = 5SE +/- 0.64, N = 5SE +/- 0.25, N = 5SE +/- 0.46, N = 5SE +/- 0.71, N = 584.1483.8583.8383.6683.43-march=bdver1-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=barcelona-march=k81. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize

TSCP

AI Chess Performance

OpenBenchmarking.orgNodes Per Second, More Is BetterTSCP 1.81AI Chess Performancek8barcelonabdver3bdver2bdver1160K320K480K640K800KSE +/- 257.20, N = 5SE +/- 600.77, N = 5SE +/- 198.20, N = 5SE +/- 671.07, N = 5SE +/- 699.90, N = 5760113742690739101738707738311-march=k8-march=barcelona-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=bdver11. (CC) gcc options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxationk8barcelonabdver3bdver1bdver2150300450600750SE +/- 0.12, N = 4SE +/- 0.08, N = 4SE +/- 0.38, N = 4SE +/- 0.38, N = 4SE +/- 0.80, N = 4689.02688.88688.08687.76687.47-march=k8-march=barcelona-march=bdver3-march=bdver1-march=bdver21. (CXX) g++ options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorizationbdver3bdver2bdver1k8barcelona30060090012001500SE +/- 2.87, N = 4SE +/- 3.97, N = 4SE +/- 1.67, N = 4SE +/- 6.32, N = 4SE +/- 5.67, N = 41165.941164.641162.411156.291155.51-march=bdver3-march=bdver2-march=bdver1-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiplybdver2bdver3k8bdver1barcelona2004006008001000SE +/- 2.24, N = 4SE +/- 7.27, N = 4SE +/- 4.11, N = 4SE +/- 9.94, N = 4SE +/- 15.60, N = 4877.91866.81865.92860.41849.34-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=k8-march=bdver1-march=barcelona1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transformk8bdver2bdver3barcelonabdver11632486480SE +/- 0.22, N = 4SE +/- 0.10, N = 4SE +/- 0.16, N = 4SE +/- 0.94, N = 4SE +/- 1.36, N = 473.5971.1570.7768.9968.50-march=k8-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=barcelona-march=bdver11. (CXX) g++ options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Monte Carlo

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Monte Carlobdver1bdver2bdver3k8barcelona90180270360450SE +/- 0.77, N = 4SE +/- 1.61, N = 4SE +/- 10.39, N = 4SE +/- 7.32, N = 4SE +/- 0.60, N = 4423.73423.28413.64397.86384.47-march=bdver1-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3

SciMark

Computational Test: Composite

OpenBenchmarking.orgMflops, More Is BetterSciMark 2.0Computational Test: Compositebdver2bdver3bdver1k8barcelona140280420560700SE +/- 1.36, N = 4SE +/- 1.36, N = 4SE +/- 1.89, N = 4SE +/- 1.68, N = 4SE +/- 4.49, N = 4644.89641.05640.56636.54629.44-march=bdver2-march=bdver3-march=bdver1-march=k8-march=barcelona1. (CXX) g++ options: -O3


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