ASTC Encoder

ASTC Encoder (astcenc) is for the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) format commonly used with OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan graphics APIs. This test profile does a coding test of both compression/decompression.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark astcenc.

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

18 August 2020

Last Updated

22 July 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

23 Seconds

Average Run Time

5 Minutes, 56 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + CMake

Accolades

40k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms


Thorough28.4%Exhaustive28.1%Fast15.8%Medium27.8%Preset Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

Revision History

pts/astcenc-1.4.0   [View Source]   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 05:30:06 GMT
Update against ASTC Encoder 4.0 upstream.

pts/astcenc-1.3.1   [View Source]   Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:17:35 GMT
Copy paste fix for Windows install script.

pts/astcenc-1.3.0   [View Source]   Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:29:37 GMT
Update against astcenc 3.2 upstream.

pts/astcenc-1.2.0   [View Source]   Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:27:28 GMT
Update against ASTC Encoder 3.0.

pts/astcenc-1.1.0   [View Source]   Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:43:29 GMT
Update against upstream ASTCENC 2.4.

pts/astcenc-1.0.2   [View Source]   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:05:12 GMT
Fix for building on AArch64.

pts/astcenc-1.0.1   [View Source]   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:49:44 GMT
Fix for macOS build.

pts/astcenc-1.0.0   [View Source]   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:43:45 GMT
Initial commit of Arm ASTC Encoder (astcenc) benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Creator Workloads

Texture Compression

Game Development


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

ASTC Encoder 4.0

Preset: Thorough

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 700 public results since 22 July 2022 with the latest data as of 21 May 2023.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
MT/s (Average)
Mid-Tier
75th
< 30
59th
37
16 +/- 2
Median
50th
13
Low-Tier
25th
< 7
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Preset: Thorough700 Results Range From 0 To 123 MT/s11223344556677889911012113260120180240300

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (ASTC Encoder 4.0 - Preset: Thorough) has an average run-time of 2 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkPreset: ThoroughRun-Time3691215Min: 1 / Avg: 1.63 / Max: 9

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseASTC Encoder CPU Core ScalingPreset: Thorough46810121624326412848121620

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set
Support
Instructions Detected
SSE 4.2 (SSE4_2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
POPCNT
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
VZEROUPPER VPERMILPS VEXTRACTF128 VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

 
VPERMQ VEXTRACTI128 VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTQ VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTD VPSLLVD VINSERTI128 VGATHERDPS VPMASKMOVD VPSRAVD VPBROADCASTW VPERMD
FMA (FMA)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
VFNMADD132SD VFMADD132SS VFMADD132PS VFMADD213SS VFMADD132SD VFMADD231SS VFNMADD231SS VFNMADD132SS VFNMADD213SS VFMADD231PS VFMSUB132PS VFNMADD231PS VFMADD213PS VFNMADD132PS VFMSUB231PS VFMSUB231SS VFMSUB132SS VFNMADD213PS
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake, sapphirerapids).
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 26 July 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libm.so.6, libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture
Kernel Identifier
Verified On
Intel / AMD x86 64-bit
x86_64
(Many Processors)

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