GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarking vs. LLVM Clang

Intel Core i9-7980XE benchmarks of GCC 8 / GCC 9 versus LLVM Clang 7 and LLVM Clang 8 compilers on Ubuntu Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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GCC 8.2.0
November 13 2018
  1 Hour, 11 Minutes
GCC 9.0.0 20181112
November 12 2018
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November 13 2018
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November 13 2018
  56 Minutes
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GCC 9 Compiler Benchmarking vs. LLVM Clang Intel Core i9-7980XE benchmarks of GCC 8 / GCC 9 versus LLVM Clang 7 and LLVM Clang 8 compilers on Ubuntu Linux. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"GCC 8.2.0","GCC 9.0.0 20181112","Clang 7.0.0","Clang 8.0.0 20181111" Processor,,Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads),Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.20GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads) Motherboard,,ASUS PRIME X299-A (1503 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1503 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1503 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1503 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,240GB Force MP510,240GB Force MP510,240GB Force MP510,240GB Force MP510 Graphics,,NV120 12GB,NV120 12GB,NV120 12GB,NV120 12GB Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220 Monitor,,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278 Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10 Kernel,,4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-10-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1 OpenGL,,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2,4.3 Mesa 18.2.2 Compiler,,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 9.0.0 20181112,Clang 7.0.0-3,Clang 8.0.0-svn346617-1~exp1+0~20181111195013.162~1.gbp8d271f File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,2560x1440,2560x1440,2560x1440,2560x1440 ,,"GCC 8.2.0","GCC 9.0.0 20181112","Clang 7.0.0","Clang 8.0.0 20181111" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,93576,93437,, "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time (sec)",LIB,31.35,31.32,32.30,32.19 "BLAKE2 - (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,3.66,3.51,3.02,3.10 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,33.70,33.75,66.76,67.06 "CloverLeaf - Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics (sec)",LIB,2.98,3.20,, "Crafty - Elapsed Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,8560641,8423397,, "ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,607319,620245,594997,588266 "FFTW - Build: Float + SSE - Size: 1D FFT Size 2048 (Mflops)",HIB,57019,59299,56274,54433 "FFTW - Build: Float + SSE - Size: 2D FFT Size 2048 (Mflops)",HIB,20014,20468,20258,19871 "High Performance Conjugate Gradient - (GFLOP/s)",HIB,1.25,1.22,1.33,1.34 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3089,3093,2463,2455 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,22254,22173,27611,25614 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,72707667,74356333,98537500,100083000 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,670435,675993,799209,818976 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,10.13,9.74,12.16,11.80 "libjpeg-turbo tjbench - Test: Decompression Throughput (Megapixels/sec)",HIB,183,184,204,198 "m-queens - Time To Solve (sec)",LIB,48.73,48.72,50.19,50.41 "Memcached mcperf - Method: Get (Operations/sec)",HIB,108730,110495,115868,115247 "Memcached mcperf - Method: Set (Operations/sec)",HIB,71776,72449,73064,73009 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,4834,4557,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,925,1250,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6756,6718,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,7220,7174,, "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3542,3865,, "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4658,4673,4547,4544 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,79.36,81.52,, "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,2.46,2.44,, "Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,7.13,7.19,, "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding (sec)",LIB,146,147,, "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,496730,500154,504725,505631 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,23830,21776,17186,10012 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,2615,2613,2584,2577 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,906,906,717,717 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,727,732,763,768 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,3295,3295,3300,3288 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,6071,6063,6476,6449 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,2074,2069,1662,1661 "Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,47827811,46908339,46179707,45725081 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,22.05,22.26,21.13,19.70 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,10.26,10.42,8.59,8.52 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,44.26,44.18,, "Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,223,220,216,189 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,128,128,125,125 "Xsbench - (Lookups/s)",HIB,4662395,4664809,5156109,5022107 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.61,10.63,10.27,10.34