Linux 4.12 to Linux 5.0 kernel benchmarks on an Intel Core i9 7960X. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
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Core i9 7960X Linux 5.0 Kernel Benchmarks
Linux 4.12 to Linux 5.0 kernel benchmarks on an Intel Core i9 7960X. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel.
,,"Linux 4.12","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.20","Linux 5.0 Git"
Processor,,Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),Intel Core i9-7960X @ 4.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads)
Motherboard,,MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 BIOS),MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 (1.A0 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,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,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,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB
Disk,,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8
Graphics,,Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz),Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 550/550X 2GB (1206/1750MHz)
Audio,,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220,Realtek ALC1220
Monitor,,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U
Network,,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211,Intel I219-V + Intel I211
OS,,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10,Ubuntu 18.10
Kernel,,4.12.0-041200-generic (x86_64),4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64),4.14.0-041400-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-041500-generic (x86_64),4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64),4.17.0-041700-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-041800-generic (x86_64),4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64),4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64),5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190217
Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,GNOME Shell 3.30.1,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,X Server 1.20.1,X Server 1.20.1,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,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1,modesetting 1.20.1
OpenGL,,4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0)
Compiler,,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0,GCC 8.2.0
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160
,,"Linux 4.12","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.20","Linux 5.0 Git"
"SQLite - Timed SQLite Insertions (sec)",LIB,13.95,14.00,14.26,16.00,15.77,14.75,14.72,15.06,16.61,12.51
"FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,111,118,121,116,116,115,109,101,109,120
"FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,68.56,68.84,68.49,68.88,70.25,66.93,68.77,66.62,68.24,67.65
"BlogBench - Test: Read (Final Score)",HIB,1441338,1277929,1435431,1433530,1368724,1281157,1413307,1380708,1239923,1335880
"BlogBench - Test: Write (Final Score)",HIB,7450,8340,8076,7848,7357,7772,7614,7531,7716,7437
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,934,937,937,849,844,843,855,847,854,855
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,626,682,643,518,549,613,586,555,625,627
"Tesseract - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (FPS)",HIB,72.31,72.16,72.42,70.37,70.97,71.35,71.10,71.23,71.22,70.92
"Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,66.51,66.54,66.80,64.08,64.44,64.52,64.47,64.88,64.69,64.59
"Sockperf - Test: Throughput (Messages/sec)",HIB,774467,757001,789092,594603,643361,627930,614978,585818,464981,464915
"Sockperf - Test: Latency Ping Pong (usec)",LIB,3.60,3.38,3.51,4.23,4.03,4.01,4.21,4.16,3.88,3.96
"Sockperf - Test: Latency Under Load (usec)",LIB,29.52,29.84,29.24,31.32,32.68,32.19,33.94,32.45,26.39,31.61
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,654,654,653,615,621,627,622,626,626,628
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6441,5404,5449,5172,5199,5311,5204,5256,5352,5181
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.C (Mop/s)",HIB,11085,11108,11091,9912,10344,10669,10657,10655,10655,10654
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,452,452,452,433,434,435,433,434,434,434
"LeelaChessZero - Backend: BLAS (Nodes/s)",HIB,279,284,283,269,267,273,272,272,271,273
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,70.80,71.31,71.37,71.08,71.10,71.05,71.06,70.83,70.78,70.74
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,2.42,2.39,2.40,2.50,2.50,2.49,2.51,2.49,2.51,2.51
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,7.28,7.76,7.11,7.47,7.45,7.43,7.41,7.80,7.74,7.86
"Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,21.43,21.36,21.49,21.76,21.30,21.35,21.45,21.50,21.36,21.32
"Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,12.28,12.29,12.22,12.40,12.33,12.29,12.31,12.33,12.28,12.24
"NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,1.02607,1.06390,1.07717,1.06693,1.06728,1.06732,1.06739,1.06557,1.06267,1.06771
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,4.42,4.21,4.41,4.42,4.46,4.32,4.35,4.32,4.33,4.28
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,2.11,2.07,2.37,2.20,2.20,2.17,2.21,2.29,2.22,2.21
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: H2 (msec)",LIB,3028,2901,2946,3011,3054,3090,3008,3069,2982,3136
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,3257,3435,3270,3427,3427,3451,3458,3441,3422,3449
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradesoap (msec)",LIB,3103,3170,3375,3232,3270,3272,3282,3217,3222,3235
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,2986,2852,2836,3004,3006,3040,3035,3065,3085,3068
"LuaJIT - Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1568,1612,1517,1544,1529,1593,1591,1592,1592,1593
"Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,11545,11599,11761,10657,10498,10545,10624,10443,10312,10361
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,672,663,660,661,660,661,660,660,661,658
"SVT-HEVC - 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,299,306,307,296,294,295,296,296,295,295
"SVT-VP9 - 1080p 8-bit YUV To VP9 Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,317,295,313,298,299,300,297,299,299,299
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,137,137,138,132,132,133,133,133,134,135
"x265 - H.265 1080p Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,51.49,50.90,50.84,50.81,51.04,51.15,51.31,51.33,51.23,51.51
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,2859,2869,2822,2943,2924,3056,3043,3054,3043,3041
"ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,457858,478703,469816,470012,489375,458116,492589,479383,482232,478733
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,43.41,43.95,44.17,45.05,44.66,44.83,44.94,44.91,44.80,45.27
"Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,246,236,233,248,240,247,249,251,252,250
"Rust Mandelbrot - Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot (sec)",LIB,46.20,46.66,47.14,45.84,45.74,44.08,44.14,44.15,44.27,44.12
"Rust Prime Benchmark - Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 (sec)",LIB,6.64,6.75,6.64,6.69,6.68,6.68,6.69,6.69,6.69,6.69
"Node.js Octane Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,41724,45257,39198,43277,44320,45868,45929,45808,46166,45881
"XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,85.07,86.30,86.20,85.18,84.58,85.50,84.98,85.51,85.55,85.27
"Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.45,10.56,10.47,10.59,10.53,10.57,10.53,10.58,10.60,10.61
"dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K (sec)",LIB,21.97,21.46,21.97,21.84,21.89,21.74,21.72,21.72,21.77,21.77
"dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 1080p (sec)",LIB,7.67,7.65,7.68,7.68,7.70,7.64,7.65,7.66,7.66,7.65
"Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,33.91,33.40,33.55,45.78,46.37,49.06,49.07,48.21,48.03,47.28
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4597,4609,4602,4424,4417,4401,4408,4413,4419,4404
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-sha512 (Iterations/sec)",HIB,1609799,1608612,1620217,1604170,1630754,1679542,1686718,1676854,1681349,1677741
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,951646,957561,965007,938463,952595,983045,983042,984270,982426,983042
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,513316,527596,514126,483791,481499,481641,486733,484720,476537,471254
"Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,8.18,7.76,8.20,8.08,8.07,8.07,8.05,8.05,8.05,8.05
"Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,4.14,4.13,3.93,4.11,4.11,4.03,4.02,4.03,4.01,4.03
"Darktable - Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,0.11,0.12,0.11,0.12,0.12,0.12,0.13,0.12,0.13,0.12
"Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,2.73,2.54,2.54,2.64,2.64,2.64,2.62,2.63,2.63,2.63
"GIMP - Test: resize (sec)",LIB,9.00,9.04,9.00,9.47,9.50,9.18,9.25,9.21,9.12,9.20
"GIMP - Test: rotate (sec)",LIB,12.55,12.98,13.06,13.64,13.60,13.60,13.61,13.62,13.57,13.62
"GIMP - Test: auto-levels (sec)",LIB,14.78,14.90,14.98,15.59,15.60,15.07,15.12,15.13,15.05,15.20
"GIMP - Test: unsharp-mask (sec)",LIB,18.81,18.89,18.77,19.70,19.73,18.92,18.96,19.13,18.92,18.96
"GNU Octave Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,12.28,16.77,17.04,17.84,17.94,17.51,17.51,17.81,17.55,17.41
"Stress-NG - Test: Forking (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,96634,103143,96693,92400,91597,91170,90244,97350,93872,92840
"Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3544177,3021911,3149801,3170972,3125260,3029755,3124404,3124139,2965774,3116617
"Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,16352,15660,14206,10375,10957,10984,10849,10545,15252,15636
"Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,2313307,15048186,9280054,13704038,13624004,15109550,15143645,15525058,19010699,19272733
"Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,8222695,14618292,9809250,8120291,10055836,7989215,8224598,8250516,8158439,7796583
"ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,107,119,115,449,459,418,422,422,407,403
"Optcarrot - Optimized Benchmark (FPS)",HIB,135,134,136,129,131,137,138,136,137,136
"IndigoBench - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,2.33,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30
"IndigoBench - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,5.72,5.45,5.45,5.50,5.50,5.50,5.49,5.50,5.48,5.51
"Blender - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,119,124,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,123
"Blender - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,577,578,578,579,578,578,578,578,578,578
"PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,953,960,955,998,997,952,955,949,950,947
"PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,687767,657535,648147,668188,673483,703272,702188,705017,702192,703748
"Tesseract OCR - Time To OCR 7 Images (sec)",LIB,26.89,26.73,27.42,26.75,26.77,26.35,26.37,26.34,26.31,26.59
"BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,197740,195417,195636,190789,189766,191202,189662,189338,189860,191503
"OSBench - Test: Create Files (us/Event)",LIB,10.80,10.44,10.42,12.72,12.52,12.32,12.28,12.33,12.23,12.35
"OSBench - Test: Create Threads (us/Event)",LIB,10.48,9.87,11.33,15.27,15.04,16.22,16.25,13.36,13.49,13.40
"OSBench - Test: Launch Programs (us/Event)",LIB,29.02,28.69,29.65,32.57,34.30,35.23,35.48,34.26,34.96,35.55
"OSBench - Test: Create Processes (us/Event)",LIB,22.57,23.05,23.57,28.79,28.98,29.16,29.09,29.19,29.48,29.31
"OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations (Ns/Event)",LIB,67.08,65.82,65.97,72.14,72.69,71.63,71.53,72.08,71.62,71.79
"Schbench - Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,101,101,100,105,104,106,107,108,108,110
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel (ms)",LIB,7554,5053,2711,2433,2298,5780,5340,5615,5330,5278
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Firmware (ms)",LIB,26400,26452,26416,26636,26383,26395,26454,26384,26381,26407
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,960188,930854,936410,939024,937905,981821,984270,979372,982426,