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"
"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
"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
"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
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,658,661,660,660,661,660,661,660,663,672
"Optcarrot - Optimized Benchmark (FPS)",HIB,136,137,136,138,137,131,129,136,134,135
"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
"SVT-HEVC - 1080p 8-bit YUV To HEVC Video Encode (FPS)",HIB,295,295,296,296,295,294,296,307,306,299
"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
"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
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-sha512 (Iterations/sec)",HIB,1677741,1681349,1668836,1686718,1679542,1593588,1587255,1578102,1581770,1609799
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,983042,982426,984270,983042,983045,952595,938463,965007,957561,951646
"Cryptsetup - PBKDF2-whirlpool (Iterations/sec)",HIB,,982426,979372,984270,981821,937905,939024,936410,930854,960188
"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
"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
"Sockperf - Test: Throughput (Messages/sec)",HIB,464915,464981,585818,614978,627930,643361,594603,789092,757001,774467
"LuaJIT - Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1593,1592,1592,1591,1593,1529,1544,1517,1612,1568
"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
"ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,478733,482232,479383,492589,458116,489375,470012,469816,478703,457858
"Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,10361,10312,10443,10624,10545,10498,10657,11761,11599,11545
"Node.js Octane Benchmark - (Score)",HIB,45881,46166,45808,45929,45868,44320,43277,39198,45257,41724
"PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,703748,702192,705017,702188,703272,673483,668188,648147,657535,687767
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,4404,4419,4413,4408,4401,4417,4424,4602,4609,4597
"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
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,471254,476537,484720,486733,481641,481499,483791,514126,527596,513316
"BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,191503,189860,189338,189662,191202,189766,190789,195636,195417,197740
"ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,403,407,422,422,418,459,449,115,119,107
"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
"PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,947,950,949,955,952,997,998,955,960,953
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Kernel (ms)",LIB,5278,5330,5615,5340,5780,2298,2433,2711,5053,7554
"Systemd Total Boot Time - Test: Firmware (ms)",LIB,26407,26381,26384,26454,26395,26383,26636,26416,26452,26400
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,250,252,251,249,247,240,248,233,236,246
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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