Blender

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

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

8 June 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

27 Seconds

Average Run Time

6 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Accolades

150k+ 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 12 August 2022.

Revision History

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 3.2

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 408 public results since 8 June 2022 with the latest data as of 10 August 2022.

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 7763 64-Core

100th

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

95th

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

94th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

91st

25 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

89th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

88th

29 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

87th

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

85th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

84th

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

83rd

2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

82nd

38 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

80th

42 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

78th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

78th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

76th

55 ^{+/- 1}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 56

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

75th

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

73rd

70 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

72nd

75 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-12900K

69th

79 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

68th

Intel Core i9-10980XE

65th

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

62nd

99 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

62nd

105

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

60th

108

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

58th

111

Intel Core i9-10900K

58th

114 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-12600K

55th

120 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-11900K

52nd

131

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

51st

142

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

51st

142 ^{+/- 2}

Median

50th

143

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

50th

143 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

48th

147 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

47th

150 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

46th

154

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

44th

157 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

42nd

167 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i9-9900K

41st

177

Intel Core i5-12400

40th

180 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

37th

200 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i5-11600K

37th

200 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i5-10600K

36th

201

Intel Core i7-8700K

33rd

215

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

32nd

221 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

28th

225 ^{+/- 7}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

26th

243 ^{+/- 25}

Intel Core i7-1280P

26th

246 ^{+/- 31}

Low-Tier

25th

> 252

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

22nd

277 ^{+/- 14}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

21st

289 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

19th

305 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-10700T

19th

307

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

14th

342

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

14th

343 ^{+/- 7}

4 x AMD Opteron 8378

13th

371 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-12100

11th

384 ^{+/- 6}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

10th

390 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

9th

408 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

8th

430 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-1005G1

3rd

1075 ^{+/- 2}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Blender 3.2 - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only) has an average run-time of 13 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.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.

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 CMPNLEPD CMPLEPD CMPNLTPD

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

HADDPS MOVSHDUP LDDQU ADDSUBPS MOVDDUP HSUBPS MOVSLDUP

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PSHUFB PABSW PSIGNW PMULHRSW PMADDUBSW PALIGNR PABSD PSIGND PHADDD PABSB PHADDW

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)

FMA (FMA)

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

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

Last automated analysis: 8 June 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, libXi.so.6, libXxf86vm.so.1, libXfixes.so.3, libXrender.so.1, libm.so.6, libGL.so.1, libc.so.6, libxcb.so.1, libXext.so.6, libGLdispatch.so.0, libGLX.so.0, 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 M2

ant01 2 Systems - 3 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - MSI MEG X570 UNIFY - 4 x 16384 MB 3600MHz F4-3600C16-16GTZNC Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19043 - 10.0.19043.1826 - 512.15
blenderbarbershop 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - ASUS KRPA-U16-M - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-43-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
blenderclassroom 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - ASUS KRPA-U16-M - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-43-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X / Threadripper 3970X 11 Systems - 392 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.4.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
win10cpuTesteBlender30re 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD PRO A10-8750B R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G - HP 805A - 2 x 8192 MB 1600MHz SF5641G8CJ8N6NNSEG Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19044 - 10.0.19044.1826 - 27.20.1034.6
ryzen-vm-test-max 3 Systems - 135 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Linuxmint 21 - 5.15.0-43-generic - Cinnamon 5.4.9
ryzen-vm-test-max 3 Systems - 135 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Linuxmint 21 - 5.15.0-43-generic - Cinnamon 5.4.9
test-cpu 1 System - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-6700K - ASUS Z170I PRO GAMING - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 ManjaroLinux 21.3.6 - 5.15.57-2-MANJARO - KDE Plasma 5.24.6
bmcd-motile-sysbench 2 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3500U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Raven Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-104-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
bmcd-motile-sysbench 2 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3500U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Raven Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-104-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
bmcd-i5-7500T-sysbench 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7500T - Dell OptiPlex 7050 [0D24M8] - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-16-amd64 - 1.2.145
bmcd-i5-7500T-sysbench 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7500T - Dell OptiPlex 7050 [0D24M8] - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Debian 11 - 5.10.0-16-amd64 - 1.2.145
ryzen-vm-test-max 3 Systems - 76 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-43-generic - KDE Plasma 5.24.4
blender 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	12th Gen Intel Core i5-12500T - HP 8955 - 2 x 16384 MB DDR4-3200MT CentOS Linux 7 - 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.28.3
MacBook Air M2 macOS 1 System - 90 Benchmark Results	Apple M2 - Apple MacBook Air - 8GB macOS 12.5 - 21.6.0 - GCC 13.1.6 + Clang 13.1.6 + Xcode 13.4.1

3300X June 2022 Featured OpenGL Comparison	AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core - MSI B350M GAMING PRO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i3-12100 - ASRock B660M-HDV - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
Core i9 12900K Windows vs. Linux - Mid 2022 4 Systems - 103 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900K - ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Intel Core i7 1280P ADL-P Linux 5.19 Benchmarks Featured Kernel Comparison	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
blender-5950x 3 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
epyc extra Featured Processor Comparison	AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc4daily20220628-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
10900K June Featured OpenGL Comparison	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.17.0-051700rc7daily20220309-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
5600G Ryzen AMD Linux 4 Systems - 171 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - Gigabyte A520M DS3H - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
atlas_mitigation 2 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core - MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS - AMD Starship ManjaroLinux 21.3.3 - 5.15.53-1-MANJARO - GNOME Shell 42.3.1
HP Dev One Pop OS 22.04 Benchmarks 6 Systems - 130 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - HP 8A78 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
good tests 3 Systems - 114 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Pop 22.04 - 5.17.5-76051705-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
12100 June 4 Systems - 129 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-12100 - ASRock B660M-HDV - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.0-051800-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
blender cxl box 3 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-27-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5
12400 June 3 Systems - 129 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12400 - ASRock B660M-HDV - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-25-generic - GNOME Shell 41.3
amd epyc extra 6 Systems - 53 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core - AMD DAYTONA_X - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc4daily20220628-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2

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 3.2

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