Debian 9.6 vs. Debian Buster Testing Linux Benchmarks
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX of Debian Linux 9.6 against Debian Buster Testing (December 2018). Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Debian 9.6
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1501 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Debian 9.6, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: none / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.13 + Python 3.5.3
Security Notes: __user pointer sanitization + Full AMD retpoline IBPB + SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp
Debian Buster Testing
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1501 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.18.0-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 (LLVM 7.0.1), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.6.7
Security Notes: __user pointer sanitization + Full AMD retpoline IBPB + SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp
SQLite
This is a simple benchmark of SQLite. At present this test profile just measures the time to perform a pre-defined number of insertions on an indexed database. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Flexible IO Tester
Fio is an advanced disk benchmark that depends upon the kernel's AIO access library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FS-Mark
FS_Mark is designed to test a system's file-system performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Compile Bench
Compilebench tries to age a filesystem by simulating some of the disk IO common in creating, compiling, patching, stating and reading kernel trees. It indirectly measures how well filesystems can maintain directory locality as the disk fills up and directories age. This current test is setup to use the makej mode with 10 initial directories Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenArena
This is a test of OpenArena, a popular open-source first-person shooter. This game is based upon ioquake3, which in turn uses the GPL version of id Software's Quake 3 engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Tesseract
Tesseract is a fork of Cube 2 Sauerbraten with numerous graphics and game-play improvements. Tesseract has been in development since 2012 while its first release happened in May of 2014. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xonotic
This is a benchmark of Xonotic, which is a fork of the DarkPlaces-based Nexuiz game. Development began in March of 2010 on the Xonotic game. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GeeXLab
GeeXLab is a cross-platform tool for 3D programming and demo creation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ParaView
This test runs ParaView benchmarks: an open-source data analytics and visualization application. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Tinymembench
This benchmark tests the system memory (RAM) performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
MBW
This is a basic/simple memory (RAM) bandwidth benchmark for memory copy operations. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
CloverLeaf
CloverLeaf is a Lagrangian-Eulerian hydrodynamics benchmark. This test profile currently makes use of CloverLeaf's OpenMP version and benchmarked with the clover_bm8192.in input file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Rodinia
Rodinia is a suite focused upon accelerating compute-intensive applications with accelerators. CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenCL parallel models are supported by the included applications. This profile utilizes the OpenCL and OpenMP test binaries at the moment. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
High Performance Conjugate Gradient
HPCG is the High Performance Conjugate Gradient and is a new scientific benchmark from Sandia National Lans focused for super-computer testing with modern real-world workloads compared to HPCC. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAMD
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFTW
FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed MAFFT Alignment
This test performs an alignment of 100 pyruvate decarboxylase sequences. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Go Benchmarks
Benchmark for monitoring real time performance of the Go implementation for HTTP, JSON and garbage testing per iteration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Botan
Botan is a cross-platform open-source C++ crypto library that supports most all publicly known cryptographic algorithms. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Numpy Benchmark
This is a test to obtain the general Numpy performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Crafty
This is a performance test of Crafty, an advanced open-source chess engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
TSCP
This is a performance test of TSCP, Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program, which has a built-in performance benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
John The Ripper
This is a benchmark of John The Ripper, which is a password cracker. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Open FMM Nero2D
This is a test of Nero2D, which is a two-dimensional TM/TE solver for Open FMM. Open FMM is a free collection of electromagnetic software for scattering at very large objects. This test profile times how long it takes to solve one of the included 2D examples. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
x264
This is a simple test of the x264 encoder run on the CPU (OpenCL support disabled) with a sample video file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
x265
This is a simple test of the x265 encoder run on the CPU with a sample video file. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
GraphicsMagick
This is a test of GraphicsMagick with its OpenMP implementation that performs various imaging tests to stress the system's CPU. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
7-Zip Compression
This is a test of 7-Zip using p7zip with its integrated benchmark feature or upstream 7-Zip for the Windows x64 build. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stockfish
This is a test of Stockfish, an advanced C++11 chess benchmark that can scale up to 128 CPU cores. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
asmFish
This is a test of asmFish, an advanced chess benchmark written in Assembly. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Swet
Swet is a synthetic CPU/RAM benchmark, includes multi-processor test cases. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ebizzy
This is a test of ebizzy, a program to generate workloads resembling web server workloads. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed ImageMagick Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build ImageMagick. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed LLVM Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build the LLVM compiler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Timed PHP Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build PHP 5 with the Zend engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
C-Ray
This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
POV-Ray
This is a test of POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer. POV-Ray is used to create 3D graphics using ray-tracing. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Primesieve
Primesieve generates prime numbers using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. Primesieve benchmarks the CPU's L1/L2 cache performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Y-Cruncher
Y-Cruncher is a multi-threaded Pi benchmark. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
AOBench
AOBench is a lightweight ambient occlusion renderer, written in C. The test profile is using a size of 2048 x 2048. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Bullet Physics Engine
This is a benchmark of the Bullet Physics Engine. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LZMA Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a file using LZMA compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
XZ Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu file-system image) using XZ compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Zstd Compression
This test measures the time needed to compress a sample file (an Ubuntu file-system image) using Zstd compression. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Cython benchmark
Stress benchmark tests to measure time consumed by cython code Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FLAC Audio Encoding
This test times how long it takes to encode a sample WAV file to FLAC format five times. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LAME MP3 Encoding
LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FFmpeg
This test uses FFmpeg for testing the system's audio/video encoding performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Hackbench
This is a benchmark of Hackbench, a test of the Linux kernel scheduler. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
m-queens
A solver for the N-queens problem with multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Mencoder
This test uses mplayer's mencoder utility and the libavcodec family for testing the system's audio/video encoding performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Minion
Minion is an open-source constraint solver that is designed to be very scalable. This test profile uses Minion's integrated benchmarking problems to solve. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
N-Queens
This is a test of the OpenMP version of a test that solves the N-queens problem. The board problem size is 18. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
R Benchmark
This test is a quick-running survey of general R performance Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Sudokut
This is a test of Sudokut, which is a Sudoku puzzle solver written in Tcl. This test measures how long it takes to solve 100 Sudoku puzzles. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open-source toolkit that implements SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols. This test measures the RSA 4096-bit performance of OpenSSL. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
glibc bench
The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostgreSQL pgbench
This is a simple benchmark of PostgreSQL using pgbench. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Redis
Redis is an open-source data structure server. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Stress-NG
Stress-NG is a Linux stress tool developed by Colin King of Canonical. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Sysbench
This is a benchmark of Sysbench with CPU and memory sub-tests. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Optcarrot
Optcarrot is an NES emulator benchmark for the Ruby language. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Blender
Blender is an open-source 3D creation software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles benchmark with various sample files. GPU computing via OpenCL or CUDA is supported. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xsbench
XSBench is a mini-app representing a key computational kernel of the Monte Carlo neutronics application OpenMC. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Memcached mcperf
This is a test of twmperf/mcperf with memcached. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PyBench
This test profile reports the total time of the different average timed test results from PyBench. PyBench reports average test times for different functions such as BuiltinFunctionCalls and NestedForLoops, with this total result providing a rough estimate as to Python's average performance on a given system. This test profile runs PyBench each time for 20 rounds. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Apache Benchmark
This is a test of ab, which is the Apache benchmark program. This test profile measures how many requests per second a given system can sustain when carrying out 1,000,000 requests with 100 requests being carried out concurrently. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PHPBench
PHPBench is a benchmark suite for PHP. It performs a large number of simple tests in order to bench various aspects of the PHP interpreter. PHPBench can be used to compare hardware, operating systems, PHP versions, PHP accelerators and caches, compiler options, etc. The number of iterations used is 1,000,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PHP Micro Benchmarks
Various small PHP micro-benchmarks. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Sunflow Rendering System
This test runs benchmarks of the Sunflow Rendering System. The Sunflow Rendering System is an open-source render engine for photo-realistic image synthesis with a ray-tracing core. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Systemd Total Boot Time
This test uses systemd-analyze to report the entire boot time. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OSBench
OSBench is a collection of micro-benchmarks for measuring operating system primitives like time to create threads/processes, launching programs, creating files, and memory allocation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Debian 9.6
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1501 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Debian 9.6, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Vulkan: 1.0.39, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib --with-tune=generic -v
Disk Notes: none / data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.13 + Python 3.5.3
Security Notes: __user pointer sanitization + Full AMD retpoline IBPB + SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp
Testing initiated at 6 December 2018 13:23 by user phoronix.
Debian Buster Testing
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core @ 3.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (1501 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: ASUS VP28U, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless
OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.18.0-3-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3 + Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.6 (LLVM 7.0.1), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver -v
Disk Notes: NONE / errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand
Python Notes: Python 2.7.15+ + Python 3.6.7
Security Notes: __user pointer sanitization + Full AMD retpoline IBPB + SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp
Testing initiated at 7 December 2018 09:15 by user phoronix.