Linux 4.12 to Linux 5.0 kernel benchmarks on an Intel Core i9 7960X. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel.
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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 5.0 Git","Linux 4.20","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.12"
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,,5.0.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20190217,4.20.0-042000-generic (x86_64),4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64),4.18.0-041800-generic (x86_64),4.17.0-041700-generic (x86_64),4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64),4.15.0-041500-generic (x86_64),4.14.0-041400-generic (x86_64),4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64),4.12.0-041200-generic (x86_64)
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 5.0 Git","Linux 4.20","Linux 4.19","Linux 4.18","Linux 4.17","Linux 4.16","Linux 4.15","Linux 4.14","Linux 4.13","Linux 4.12"
"XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,85.27,85.55,85.51,84.98,85.50,84.58,85.18,86.20,86.30,85.07
"Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,855,854,847,855,843,844,849,937,937,934
"Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,627,625,555,586,613,549,518,643,682,626
"ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,403,407,422,422,418,459,449,115,119,107
"Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,47.28,48.03,48.21,49.07,49.06,46.37,45.78,33.55,33.40,33.91
"Stress-NG - Test: Forking (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,92840,93872,97350,90244,91170,91597,92400,96693,103143,96634
"Stress-NG - Test: Semaphores (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3116617,2965774,3124139,3124404,3029755,3125260,3170972,3149801,3021911,3544177
"Stress-NG - Test: Socket Activity (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,15636,15252,10545,10849,10984,10957,10375,14206,15660,16352
"Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,19272733,19010699,15525058,15143645,15109550,13624004,13704038,9280054,15048186,2313307
"Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,7796583,8158439,8250516,8224598,7989215,10055836,8120291,9809250,14618292,8222695
"Sockperf - Test: Throughput (Messages/sec)",HIB,464915,464981,585818,614978,627930,643361,594603,789092,757001,774467
"Sockperf - Test: Latency Ping Pong (usec)",LIB,3.96,3.88,4.16,4.21,4.01,4.03,4.23,3.51,3.38,3.60
"Sockperf - Test: Latency Under Load (usec)",LIB,31.61,26.39,32.45,33.94,32.19,32.68,31.32,29.24,29.84,29.52
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,983042,982426,984270,983042,983045,952595,938463,965007,957561,951646
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-sha512 (Iterations/sec)",HIB,1677741,1681349,1668836,1686718,1679542,1593588,1587255,1578102,1581770,1609799
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,,982426,979372,984270,981821,937905,939024,936410,930854,960188
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: H2 (msec)",LIB,3136,2982,3069,3008,3090,3054,3011,2946,2901,3028
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,3449,3422,3441,3458,3451,3427,3427,3270,3435,3257
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradesoap (msec)",LIB,3235,3222,3217,3282,3272,3270,3232,3375,3170,3103
"DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,3068,3085,3065,3035,3040,3006,3004,2836,2852,2986
"Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,8.05,8.05,8.05,8.05,8.07,8.07,8.08,8.20,7.76,8.18
"Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,4.03,4.01,4.03,4.02,4.03,4.11,4.11,3.93,4.13,4.14
"Darktable - Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,0.12,0.13,0.12,0.13,0.12,0.12,0.12,0.11,0.12,0.11
"Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,2.63,2.63,2.63,2.62,2.64,2.64,2.64,2.54,2.54,2.73
"Tesseract OCR - Time To OCR 7 Images (sec)",LIB,26.59,26.31,26.34,26.37,26.35,26.77,26.75,27.42,26.73,26.89
"BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,191503,189860,189338,189662,191202,189766,190789,195636,195417,197740
"GIMP - Test: resize (sec)",LIB,9.20,9.12,9.21,9.25,9.18,9.50,9.47,9.00,9.04,9.00
"GIMP - Test: rotate (sec)",LIB,13.62,13.57,13.62,13.61,13.60,13.60,13.64,13.06,12.98,12.55
"GIMP - Test: auto-levels (sec)",LIB,15.20,15.05,15.13,15.12,15.07,15.60,15.59,14.98,14.90,14.78
"GIMP - Test: unsharp-mask (sec)",LIB,18.96,18.92,19.13,18.96,18.92,19.73,19.70,18.77,18.89,18.81
"LuaJIT - Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1593,1592,1592,1591,1593,1529,1544,1517,1612,1568
"Tesseract - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (FPS)",HIB,70.92,71.22,71.23,71.10,71.35,70.97,70.37,72.42,72.16,72.31
"Xonotic - Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultimate (FPS)",HIB,64.59,64.69,64.88,64.47,64.52,64.44,64.08,66.80,66.54,66.51
"FS-Mark - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads (Files/s)",HIB,120,109,101,109,115,116,116,121,118,111
"FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,67.65,68.24,66.62,68.77,66.93,70.25,68.88,68.49,68.84,68.56
"Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,4.28,4.33,4.32,4.35,4.32,4.46,4.42,4.41,4.21,4.42
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,2.21,2.22,2.29,2.21,2.17,2.20,2.20,2.37,2.07,2.11
"Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,3041,3043,3054,3043,3056,2924,2943,2822,2869,2859
"LeelaChessZero - Backend: BLAS (Nodes/s)",HIB,273,271,272,272,273,267,269,283,284,279
"GNU Octave Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,17.41,17.55,17.81,17.51,17.51,17.94,17.84,17.04,16.77,12.28
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,70.74,70.78,70.83,71.06,71.05,71.10,71.08,71.37,71.31,70.80
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,2.51,2.51,2.49,2.51,2.49,2.50,2.50,2.40,2.39,2.42
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,7.86,7.74,7.80,7.41,7.43,7.45,7.47,7.11,7.76,7.28
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,628,626,626,622,627,621,615,653,654,654
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5181,5352,5256,5204,5311,5199,5172,5449,5404,6441
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.C (Mop/s)",HIB,10654,10655,10655,10657,10669,10344,9912,11091,11108,11085
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,434,434,434,433,435,434,433,452,452,452
"Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,21.32,21.36,21.50,21.45,21.35,21.30,21.76,21.49,21.36,21.43
"Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,12.24,12.28,12.33,12.31,12.29,12.33,12.40,12.22,12.29,12.28
"NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,1.06771,1.06267,1.06557,1.06739,1.06732,1.06728,1.06693,1.07717,1.06390,1.02607
"OSBench - Test: Create Files (us/Event)",LIB,12.35,12.23,12.33,12.28,12.32,12.52,12.72,10.42,10.44,10.80
"OSBench - Test: Create Threads (us/Event)",LIB,13.40,13.49,13.36,16.25,16.22,15.04,15.27,11.33,9.87,10.48
"OSBench - Test: Launch Programs (us/Event)",LIB,35.55,34.96,34.26,35.48,35.23,34.30,32.57,29.65,28.69,29.02
"OSBench - Test: Create Processes (us/Event)",LIB,29.31,29.48,29.19,29.09,29.16,28.98,28.79,23.57,23.05,22.57
"OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations (Ns/Event)",LIB,71.79,71.62,72.08,71.53,71.63,72.69,72.14,65.97,65.82,67.08
"Schbench - Message Threads: 8 - Workers Per Message Thread: 4 (usec, 99.9th Latency Percentile)",LIB,110,108,108,107,106,104,105,100,101,101
"Rust Prime Benchmark - Prime Number Test To 200,000,000 (sec)",LIB,6.69,6.69,6.69,6.69,6.68,6.68,6.69,6.64,6.75,6.64
"Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,250,252,251,249,247,240,248,233,236,246
"Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,10.61,10.60,10.58,10.53,10.57,10.53,10.59,10.47,10.56,10.45
"Rust Mandelbrot - Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot (sec)",LIB,44.12,44.27,44.15,44.14,44.08,45.74,45.84,47.14,46.66,46.20
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,45.27,44.80,44.91,44.94,44.83,44.66,45.05,44.17,43.95,43.41
"SVT-VP9 - 1080p 8-bit YUV To VP9 Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,299,299,299,297,300,299,298,313,295,317
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,135,134,133,133,133,132,132,138,137,137
"dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 4K (sec)",LIB,21.77,21.77,21.72,21.72,21.74,21.89,21.84,21.97,21.46,21.97
"dav1d - Video Input: Summer Nature 1080p (sec)",LIB,7.65,7.66,7.66,7.65,7.64,7.70,7.68,7.68,7.65,7.67
"x265 - H.265 1080p Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,51.51,51.23,51.33,51.31,51.15,51.04,50.81,50.84,50.90,51.49
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,658,661,660,660,661,660,661,660,663,672
"SVT-HEVC - 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,295,295,296,296,295,294,296,307,306,299
"Blender - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,123,124,119
"Blender - Blend File: Barbershop - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,578,578,578,578,578,578,579,578,578,577
"IndigoBench - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.30,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.31,2.33
"IndigoBench - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,5.51,5.48,5.50,5.49,5.50,5.50,5.50,5.45,5.45,5.72
"BlogBench - Test: Read (Final Score)",HIB,1335880,1239923,1380708,1413307,1281157,1368724,1433530,1435431,1277929,1441338
"BlogBench - Test: Write (Final Score)",HIB,7437,7716,7531,7614,7772,7357,7848,8076,8340,7450
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4404,4419,4413,4408,4401,4417,4424,4602,4609,4597
"Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,10361,10312,10443,10624,10545,10498,10657,11761,11599,11545
"PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,703748,702192,705017,702188,703272,673483,668188,648147,657535,687767
"SQLite - Timed SQLite Insertions (sec)",LIB,12.51,16.61,15.06,14.72,14.75,15.77,16.00,14.26,14.00,13.95
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Firmware (ms)",LIB,26407,26381,26384,26454,26395,26383,26636,26416,26452,26400
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel (ms)",LIB,5278,5330,5615,5340,5780,2298,2433,2711,5053,7554
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,471254,476537,484720,486733,481641,481499,483791,514126,527596,513316
"ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,478733,482232,479383,492589,458116,489375,470012,469816,478703,457858
"Node.js Octane Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,45881,46166,45808,45929,45868,44320,43277,39198,45257,41724
"Optcarrot - Optimized Benchmark (FPS)",HIB,136,137,136,138,137,131,129,136,134,135
"PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,947,950,949,955,952,997,998,955,960,953