Blender

Blender is an open-source 3D creation and modeling software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles performance with various sample files. GPU computing via NVIDIA OptiX and NVIDIA CUDA is currently supported as well as HIP for AMD Radeon GPUs and Intel oneAPI for Intel Graphics.

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

Project Site

blender.org

Source Repository

git.blender.org

Test Created

11 July 2016

Last Updated

7 December 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

26 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Accolades

200k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

x86_64

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* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data current as of 28 January 2023.

Revision History

pts/blender-3.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:54:02 GMT
Update against Blender 3.4 upstream.

pts/blender-3.3.1 [View Source] Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:57:49 GMT
Update SHA256 / MD5 for Blender 3.3 Linux as upstream appears to have respun that build. Fixes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/671

pts/blender-3.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Sep 2022 07:44:20 GMT
Update against Blender 3.3 upstream, add Intel oneAPI back-end option.

pts/blender-3.2.0 [View Source] Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:25:18 GMT
Update against Blender 3.2 upstram, expose Radeon HIP option, switch to using --cycles-device option in recent versions for setting device acceleration.

pts/blender-3.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:08:32 GMT
Update against Blender 3.0 upstream release.

pts/blender-1.9.1 [View Source] Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:22:17 GMT
Update download links for Barbershop blend files, old mirror broke.

pts/blender-1.9.0 [View Source] Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:02:18 GMT
Update against Blender 2.92 upstream.

pts/blender-1.8.0 [View Source] Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:54:31 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.90.

pts/blender-1.7.1 [View Source] Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:56 GMT
Add macOS support, add more download mirrors.

pts/blender-1.7.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:07:03 GMT
Update against Blender 2.82 upstream.

pts/blender-1.6.0 [View Source] Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:28:12 GMT
Update against Blender 2.81.

pts/blender-1.5.1 [View Source] Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:55:34 GMT
Fix for Blender 2.80 Python API preferences handling for GPU selection.

pts/blender-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:39:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.80 upstream.

pts/blender-1.4.1 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:47:17 GMT
Square away the Windows support.

pts/blender-1.4.0 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:43:14 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79a, plumb in initial Windows support.

pts/blender-1.3.2 [View Source] Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:05:28 GMT
Fix GPU download link

pts/blender-1.3.1 [View Source] Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:34:23 GMT
Add new Barbershop scene.

pts/blender-1.3.0 [View Source] Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:15:52 GMT
Update against Blender 2.79 upstream

pts/blender-1.2.0 [View Source] Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:35:10 GMT
Update to upstream 2.78c

pts/blender-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:44:56 GMT
Add explicit CPU-only / NONE acceleration option

pts/blender-1.1.0 [View Source] Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:02:29 GMT
Update against upstream Blender 2.78a

pts/blender-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:09:41 GMT
Initial commit

Suites Using This Test

Multi-Core

OpenCL

Common Workstation Benchmarks

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Creator Workloads

Renderers

NVIDIA GPU Compute

Game Development

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Blender 3.3

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 588 public results since 7 September 2022 with the latest data as of 13 January 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

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

99th

8 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 9634 84-Core

97th

2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

96th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

93rd

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

92nd

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

91st

15 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

89th

2 x AMD EPYC 9374F 32-Core

86th

16 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

85th

AMD EPYC 9634 84-Core

84th

AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

82nd

2 x AMD EPYC 7663 56-Core

82nd

2 x AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

80th

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

79th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

78th

2 x AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

76th

Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

76th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 26

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8362

74th

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

72nd

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

71st

2 x AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

69th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

69th

29 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

67th

AMD EPYC 9374F 32-Core

66th

31 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6342

65th

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

64th

AMD EPYC 7643 48-Core

63rd

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

61st

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

61st

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

59th

AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core

58th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

58th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6346

57th

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

51st

50 ^{+/- 1}

Median

50th

Intel Xeon Platinum 8362

49th

AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

47th

Intel Xeon Gold 6342

44th

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

44th

Intel Core i9-12900K

39th

71 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

39th

72 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i5-13600K

36th

Intel Core i7-12700K

32nd

86 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Xeon Gold 6346

32nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

30th

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

28th

99 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

28th

99 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-12900H

27th

103

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

27th

104 ^{+/- 7}

Low-Tier

25th

> 108

Intel Core i5-12600K

25th

110 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Core i9-10900K

25th

111 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-11900K

24th

122 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

22nd

131 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

21st

135

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

20th

141 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

19th

146 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

18th

149

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

17th

154 ^{+/- 8}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core

17th

157 ^{+/- 17}

Intel Core i5-12400

16th

172 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

15th

194 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

14th

197 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

13th

214 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

12th

217 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

11th

228

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

10th

271 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

10th

277 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Core i7-10700T

9th

296 ^{+/- 2}

Apple M1

8th

329 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

7th

363 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

6th

399 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

5th

419 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

3rd

480

Intel Core i7-8565U

3rd

527 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

2nd

591 ^{+/- 20}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Blender 3.3 - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only) has an average run-time of 5 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.

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.

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

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDQA PUNPCKLQDQ PADDQ PSUBQ SHUFPD SUBSD MOVDQU MULSD COMISD MOVAPD CVTTSD2SI MAXSD MINSD DIVSD UCOMISD CVTSS2SD CVTSI2SD ADDSD CVTSD2SS SQRTSD MOVD CVTSD2SI XORPD PSRLDQ CVTDQ2PS CVTPS2DQ ANDPD ANDNPD CMPNLESD ORPD PSHUFD PMULUDQ PUNPCKHQDQ MOVMSKPD CVTPS2PD CMPLTSD CMPNLTSD MULPD ADDPD UNPCKHPD MOVUPD UNPCKLPD DIVPD SUBPD MOVLPD MAXPD MOVHPD SQRTPD CMPLESD CVTTPS2DQ PSHUFHW PSHUFLW CVTDQ2PD CVTPD2PS PSLLDQ MOVNTDQ CVTPI2PD MOVDQ2Q MOVQ2DQ CVTTPD2DQ CMPLTPD

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDDUP HADDPS MOVSHDUP LDDQU ADDSUBPS HSUBPS MOVSLDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PSHUFB PABSW PSIGNW PMULHRSW PMADDUBSW PALIGNR PABSD PSIGND PHADDD PABSB PHADDW PHADDSW

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

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

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

VZEROUPPER VPERMILPS VBROADCASTSS VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VMASKMOVPS VPERM2F128 VBROADCASTSD VBROADCASTF128

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPMASKMOVD VEXTRACTI128 VGATHERDPS VPGATHERDD VPBLENDD VPERM2I128 VPERMQ VPBROADCASTQ VGATHERQPS VPERMD VPERMPS VPBROADCASTB VPBROADCASTW VGATHERDPD VPSRAVD VPSLLVD VPGATHERQQ

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Used by default on supported hardware.

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

AVX Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-VNNI)

Used by default on supported hardware.

VPDPBUSD

FMA (FMA)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VFMADD213SS VFNMADD231SS VFMADD132SS VFMADD231SS VFMADD132PS VFMADD231PS VFNMADD132SS VFNMADD231PS VFMSUB231PS VFMSUB132PS VFNMADD132PS VFMADD213PS VFMSUB132SS VFNMSUB132SS VFMSUB231SS VFNMADD213SS VFMSUB213SS VFNMADD213PS VFNMSUB231SS VFMSUB213PS VFNMSUB231PS VFMADD231PD VFMADD213PD VFMADDSUB213PS VFMSUBADD213PS

Last automated analysis: 14 December 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries librt.so.1, libutil.so.1, libpthread.so.0, libdl.so.2, libX11.so.6, libXrender.so.1, libXxf86vm.so.1, libXfixes.so.3, libXi.so.6, libxkbcommon.so.0, libsycl.so.6, libm.so.6, libc.so.6, libxcb.so.1, libXext.so.6, libXau.so.6, libXdmcp.so.6, libbsd.so.0, libmd.so.0.

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)

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

AMD-R7 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
amd-r7 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
AMD FX 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 - 4096 + 8192 + 4096 + 8192 667MHz Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2251 - 526.86
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 - 4096 + 8192 + 4096 + 8192 667MHz Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2251 - 526.86
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
AMD 3 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 - 4096 + 8192 + 4096 + 8192 667MHz Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2251 - 526.86
AMD 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS - 1 x 32768 MB 3200MHz Kingston KF3200C16D4 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.2486 - 528.02
amd 170w 1 System - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - Gigabyte X670E AORUS MASTER - 2 x 32768 MB 5200MHz HMCG88AGBUA254N Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22621 - 10.0.22621.674 - 31.0.12042.4
Linux LTS Performance Threadripper 1 System - 124 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.1.0-rc8-phx-mglru - GNOME Shell 43.0
Linux LTS Performance Threadripper 3 Systems - 124 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.15.79-051579-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
CachyOS Rolling 4 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.0.11-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.4
CachyOS Rolling 3 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 EndeavourOS rolling - 6.0.11-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.26.4

adlp gov 3 Systems - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Alder Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.0-1013-oem - GNOME Shell 42.2
12600k sept 3 Systems - 311 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc6daily20220716-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
12600k webp blendy 2 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc6daily20220716-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
Blender 3.3 Benchmark Comparison 4 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Blender 3.3 Benchmark Comparison 3 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores - ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc3-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
3900xt-september 4 Systems - 211 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
new new 3 Systems - 88 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.0-1013-oem - GNOME Shell 42.2
blender 3.3 tr 3990X 3 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-15-generic - GNOME Shell
AMD EPYC 9554/9654 Genoa Linux Review Benchmarks 20 Systems - 199 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.0.0-060000rc3daily20220904-generic - GNOME Shell
extra cpu tests 9 Systems - 113 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.0.0-060000rc1daily20220820-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Ubuntu 22.04 Server Benchmarks 2 Systems - 705 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
12400 nnn 3 Systems - 172 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12400 - MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
5800x nn 3 Systems - 132 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800rc2daily20220411-generic - GNOME Shell 42.0
5950x-92322 2 Systems - 8 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Gentoo 2.9 - 5.19.12-gentoo-harambe-edition - KDE Plasma 5.25.5
tgl nnn 3 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.13.0-52-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5

Blender

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Supported Architectures

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Blender 3.3

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results