GCC Compiler Tests EOY2018 GCC 9 compiler benchmarks at end of 2018 by Michael Larabel compared to GCC7 and GCC 8. ,,"GCC 7.4.0","GCC 8.2.0","GCC 9.0.0" 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) Motherboard,,ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS),ASUS PRIME X299-A (1602 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB Graphics,,NVIDIA NV120 12GB,NVIDIA NV120 12GB,NVIDIA NV120 12GB Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220 Monitor,,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278 Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection OS,,Clear Linux OS 26890,Clear Linux OS 26890,Clear Linux OS 26890 Kernel,,4.19.12-675.native (x86_64),4.19.12-675.native (x86_64),4.19.12-675.native (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.30.2,GNOME Shell 3.30.2,GNOME Shell 3.30.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.20.3,X Server 1.20.3,X Server 1.20.3 Display Driver,,nouveau 1.0.15,nouveau 1.0.15,nouveau 1.0.15 OpenGL,,4.3 Mesa 19.0.0-devel,4.3 Mesa 19.0.0-devel,4.3 Mesa 19.0.0-devel Compiler,,GCC 7.4.0 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1,GCC 8.2.0 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1,GCC 9.0.0 20181228 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,2560x1440,2560x1440,2560x1440 ,,"GCC 7.4.0","GCC 8.2.0","GCC 9.0.0" "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,4.37,4.09,4.13 "BLAKE2 - (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,4.02,3.47,3.44 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,2657,2708,2724 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,900,971,970 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,525,554,593 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,3003,3466,3507 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,6708,6397,6397 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,2148,2151,2154 "Crafty - Elapsed Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,8962714,9013487,8998828 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,1463297,1426890,1425415 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,141,141,138 "x265 - H.265 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,54.94,58.43,59.79 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,2808,3238,3223 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,98468,100065,98325 "Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,45061710,48331019,47936449 "asmFish - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth (Nodes/s)",HIB,50644790,50255612,50929406 "ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,593380,591523,615079 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,41.69,43.73,44.17 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,48.83,52.11,52.36 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,42.01,37.67,33.63 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples (sec)",LIB,6.18,6.04,6.07 "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time (sec)",LIB,30.10,30.81,30.97 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 3000 Fall (sec)",LIB,4.14,3.55,3.58 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Stack (sec)",LIB,4.71,4.03,3.97 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 1000 Convex (sec)",LIB,4.58,3.98,3.85 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: 136 Ragdolls (sec)",LIB,2.65,2.30,2.26 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Prim Trimesh (sec)",LIB,0.97,0.86,0.82 "Bullet Physics Engine - Test: Convex Trimesh (sec)",LIB,1.15,1.01,0.97 "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,73.25,72.48,72.72 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.20,10.26,10.23 "dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K (sec)",LIB,82.33,81.22,81.19 "dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 1080p (sec)",LIB,19.98,19.60,19.58 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,9.69,9.27,9.25 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,11.12,9.73,9.28 "m-queens - Time To Solve (sec)",LIB,49.06,48.10,48.28 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: m7m (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,492,491,491 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: deep (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,14093,14870,15583 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: lbry (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,42540,49308,53360 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: skein (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,47020,55953,61807 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: myr-gr (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,15950,15157,13422 "Cpuminer-Opt - Algorithm: sha256t (kH/s - Hash Speed)",HIB,106920,112082,124670 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,489044,494949,492593 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,5377,5333,5393 "Redis - Test: LPOP (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2857346,3292792,3189837 "Redis - Test: SADD (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2238394,2666781,2414720 "Redis - Test: LPUSH (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1852471,2180235,2091151 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2767731,3304307,3075313 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2006702,2272060,2203421 "Xsbench - (Lookups/s)",HIB,5068010,5078728,5048679 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,41249,47447,46513 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,32471,35432,35229