GCC 4.9 Late March Benchmarks Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell tests of GCC 4.8.2 and GCC 4.9.0 development snapshot on Linux x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel. GCC 4.8.2: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 GCC 4.9.0 20140323: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z87H3-A2X EXTREME v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.0 20140323, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 34857.32 |================================================ GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 34854.77 |================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 16.99 |=================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 17.11 |=================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 13.93 |=================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 13.78 |================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 170 |===================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 169 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 141 |===================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 139 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 199 |===================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 198 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 216 |===================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 214 |===================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 97 |===================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 98 |====================================================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 366967800.54 |============================================ GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 371087173.80 |============================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 1810.41 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 1825.70 |================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 . 6604 |============================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 . 10297333 |========================================================= John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 . 83968 |============================================================ LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 33.42 |=================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 31.91 |================================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 610.43 |================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 611.33 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 1405.14 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 1409.82 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 609.93 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 616.50 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 272.49 |================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 272.31 |================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 2048.55 |================================================ GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 2075.90 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 2918.19 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 2907.32 |================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 1176.55 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 1177.09 |================================================= Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 . 24 |=============================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 29.65 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 30.79 |=================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 12.06 |=================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 12.00 |=================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 60.40 |=================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 60.50 |=================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 26.21 |================================================= GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 27.18 |=================================================== x264 2014-01-09 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 4.8.2 .......... 182.74 |================================================== GCC 4.9.0 20140323 . 180.86 |=================================================