GCC 8.1 vs. GCC 7.3 Compiler Benchmarking Intel/AMD x86_64 GCC 8 compiler benchmarks on Linux 64-bit for a future article on Phoronix. ,,"GCC 7.3.0: Core i7 8700K","GCC 8.1.0: Core i7 8700K","GCC 7.3.0: Core i9 7980XE","GCC 8.1.0: Core i9 7980XE","GCC 7.3.0: 2 Xeon Gold 6138","GCC 8.1.0: 2 Xeon Gold 6138","GCC 7.3.0: Ryzen 7 2700X","GCC 8.1.0: Ryzen 7 2700X","GCC 7.3.0: EPYC 7601","GCC 8.1.0: EPYC 7601" Processor,,Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads) Motherboard,,ASUS PRIME Z370-A (0607 BIOS),ASUS PRIME Z370-A (0607 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1004 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS),ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (WI-FI) (0509 BIOS),ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (WI-FI) (0509 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V0.05.B10 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V0.05.B10 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Device 3ec2,Intel Device 3ec2,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,96256MB,96256MB,8192MB,8192MB,129024MB,129024MB Disk,,118GB INTEL SSDPEK1W120GA,118GB INTEL SSDPEK1W120GA,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA Graphics,,AMD Radeon RX Vega 8176MB,AMD Radeon RX Vega 8176MB,NV134 8192MB,NV134 8192MB,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB,MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 8192MB,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,,,AMD Ellesmere,AMD Ellesmere,, Monitor,,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,Acer B286HK,Acer B286HK,VE228,VE228,Acer B286HK,Acer B286HK,VE228,VE228 Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Realtek Device b822,Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Realtek Device b822,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS,,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04 Kernel,,4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.16.2-041602-generic (x86_64),4.16.2-041602-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1,GNOME Shell 3.28.1 Display Driver,,amdgpu 18.0.1,amdgpu 18.0.1,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6 OpenGL,,4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0),4.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5,4.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5,,,4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0.0),, Compiler,,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 8.1.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 8.1.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 8.1.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 8.1.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 8.1.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,1920x1080,1920x1080,3840x2160,3840x2160,1024x768,1024x768 ,,"GCC 7.3.0: Core i7 8700K","GCC 8.1.0: Core i7 8700K","GCC 7.3.0: Core i9 7980XE","GCC 8.1.0: Core i9 7980XE","GCC 7.3.0: 2 Xeon Gold 6138","GCC 8.1.0: 2 Xeon Gold 6138","GCC 7.3.0: Ryzen 7 2700X","GCC 8.1.0: Ryzen 7 2700X","GCC 7.3.0: EPYC 7601","GCC 8.1.0: EPYC 7601" "GNU MPC - Multi-Precision Benchmark (Global Score)",HIB,10967,11000,9250,9937,8413,8797,8267,8293,6153,6133 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,214,206,174,189,151,157,196,196,153,153 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,201,182,194,207,187,192,211,211,187,188 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,266,262,217,243,177,188,245,259,182,185 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,289,282,225,249,207,219,274,273,208,207 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,120,120,100,106,89,94,151,150,111,110 "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,15660.33,16094.00,14097.20,14675.17,12641.50,13179.03,13507.93,13887.40,10393.53,10636.07 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,3498.23,3378.44,2668.23,2655.78,2095.69,2126.68,2551.04,2521.44,1858.13,1929.63 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,955.04,866.83,842.58,798.95,746.19,687.49,265.26,746.93,195.68,556.36 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,644.97,632.75,699.07,715.32,620.75,603.14,290.95,289.55,223.59,223.94 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,3570.79,3693.53,3001.41,3398.36,2478.86,2552.25,3062.55,2974.76,2400.05,2461.82 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,9969.16,9355.11,6680.34,6249.96,4769.61,4926.66,6843.93,6304.42,4783.60,4718.95 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,2351.19,2344.00,2117.77,2116.31,1863.01,1863.84,2292.50,2291.54,1687.76,1687.12 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3301.54,3320.80,2721.09,3047.65,2607.77,2689.73,1288.68,1317.71,965.46,1000.45 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,1540210,1486216,1398624,1366694,1237148,1204151,1170873,1159047,861938,851545 "ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,382364,398816,655119,567977,909627,974557,580254,552150,1111609,1109200 "Redis - Test: LPOP (Reqs/sec)",HIB,3851755.83,3630624.83,2834089.67,2924082.50,2168657.00,2309794.75,2796050.58,3035776.79,1702037.04,1731144.83 "Redis - Test: SADD (Reqs/sec)",HIB,3000024.08,2922042.00,2112444.40,2320715.08,1970080.62,1828244.96,2209198.08,2166161.67,1397462.96,1437758.66 "Redis - Test: LPUSH (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2379477.17,2437201.08,1761252.42,1930905.38,1433138.46,1644578.79,1606362.16,1737364.33,1085511.33,1120554.29 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,3654543.25,3637269.92,2583124.38,2783213.08,2099680.94,2165365.71,2824673.21,2748172.25,1626714.96,1703998.46 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2592122.33,2547839.00,1962968.50,2127760.48,1583093.08,1752110.19,1917057.04,1974990.33,1281816.44,1295530.83 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,43358.15,43526.29,44189.14,44475.36,29549.75,29139.34,36697.97,35566.25,23721.27,23446.04 "Stockfish - Total Time (ms)",LIB,2630,2621,2946,2817,3313,3182,3369,3300,4891,4451 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,5.09,4.20,10.31,10.82,12.27,13.03,6.29,6.37,7.23,7.71 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,77.63,81.53,37.33,38.88,29.83,31.03,73.09,77.25,37.13,38.58 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,55.08,56.56,48.01,49.64,51.80,53.73,62.14,66.81,65.45,72.00 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,9.58,8.57,5.44,5.87,6.30,10.34,7.79,6.64,2.92,2.51 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,11,11,6,4,5,3,9,10,4,4 "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time (sec)",LIB,32.30,33.88,58.80,38.51,61.88,42.61,37.76,38.00,50.37,50.74 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Raytests (sec)",LIB,2.13,2.19,2.66,2.47,2.80,2.81,2.50,2.32,3.33,3.09 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 3000 Fall (sec)",LIB,3.38,3.39,4.18,3.79,4.57,4.37,3.82,3.75,5.08,5.00 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Stack (sec)",LIB,3.81,3.82,4.74,4.26,5.13,4.87,4.43,4.31,5.91,5.74 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Convex (sec)",LIB,3.70,3.67,4.55,4.06,4.86,4.63,4.77,3.99,6.39,5.34 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 136 Ragdolls (sec)",LIB,2.23,2.23,2.68,2.44,2.88,2.76,2.28,2.29,3.05,3.05 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Prim Trimesh (sec)",LIB,0.79,0.80,0.98,0.88,1.04,1.00,0.84,0.84,1.12,1.12 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Convex Trimesh (sec)",LIB,0.93,0.96,1.15,1.03,1.23,1.25,1.10,0.99,1.47,1.32 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,7.81,7.57,10.11,8.94,10.21,9.44,9.28,9.54,12.26,12.50 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,8.08,7.97,11.13,9.93,11.14,10.07,8.39,7.88,11.32,10.60