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

29 March 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

30 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 May 2023.

Revision History

pts/blender-3.5.0 [View Source] Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:57:14 GMT
Update against Blender 3.5 upstream.

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

Creator Workloads

Server CPU Tests

Renderers

NVIDIA GPU Compute

Game Development

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Blender 3.5

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 236 public results since 29 March 2023 with the latest data as of 26 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

Seconds (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

100th

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

98th

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

94th

2 x AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core

92nd

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

90th

2 x AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core

88th

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

87th

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

84th

2 x AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core

82nd

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

80th

Mid-Tier

75th

> 49

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

73rd

51 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

69th

52 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-13900K

69th

53 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

67th

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

62nd

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

60th

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

58th

69 ^{+/- 1}

AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core

56th

Intel Xeon Gold 6346

52nd

Intel Core i9-10980XE

52nd

Median

50th

104

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

47th

113 ^{+/- 15}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

46th

128

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

44th

135

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

42nd

149

AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

38th

182

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

34th

207 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

33rd

219

Intel Core i7-1280P

28th

251 ^{+/- 31}

Low-Tier

25th

> 271

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

25th

271 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

23rd

293

Intel Core i7-10700T

22nd

303 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

9th

419 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

8th

428 ^{+/- 28}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

4th

629 ^{+/- 28}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Blender 3.5 - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only) has an average run-time of 11 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%.

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

SSE3 (SSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVSLDUP MOVSHDUP MOVDDUP HADDPS LDDQU ADDSUBPS HSUBPS

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 VBROADCASTF128 VMASKMOVPS VPERM2F128 VPERMILPD VBROADCASTSD

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 VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTD VPMASKMOVD VEXTRACTI128 VGATHERDPS VPGATHERDD VPBLENDD 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).

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

Last automated analysis: 30 March 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries librt.so.1, libtbb.so, 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, libosdGPU.so.3.5.0, libosdCPU.so.3.5.0, libsycl.so.6, libOpenColorIO.so.2.2, libOpenImageIO.so.2.4, libm.so.6, libmvec.so.1, libopenvdb.so.10.0, libIex.so.30, libOpenEXR.so.30, libOpenEXRCore.so.30, libIlmThread.so.30, libImath.so.29, libc.so.6, libxcb.so.1, libXext.so.6, libSM.so.6, libICE.so.6, libGL.so.1, libz.so.1, libXau.so.6, libXdmcp.so.6, libuuid.so.1, libbsd.so.0, libGLdispatch.so.0, libGLX.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 Max

amd-epyc-7003-160W 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7713P 64-Core - (5.22 BIOS) - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-72-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
sys_test_blender 1 System - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-42-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
bla 2 Systems - 73 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-3930K - Gigabyte X79-UD3 - Intel Xeon E5 Arch rolling - 6.2.12-arch1-1 - X Server
5700g Blendere Classroom Performance Scaling Govenor 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI - AMD Renoir Linuxmint 21.1 - 5.15.0-72-generic - Cinnamon 5.6.8
Classroom 5700g CPU 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI - AMD Renoir Linuxmint 21.1 - 5.15.0-72-generic - Cinnamon 5.6.8
blender_fishy_cat_cpu_only 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-42-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
blender_fishy_cat_all_processor_type 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-42-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
blender-test 1 System - 1 Benchmark Result	Intel Core i5-3470 - ASUS P8H61-M LX3 PLUS R2.0 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-42-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
test-blender-bmw-without-mitigation 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7300U - Microsoft Surface Pro - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Arch Linux - 6.3.2-arch1-1-surface - GNOME Shell 44.1
bla 4 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core - MSI MAG B650M MORTAR WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.3.2-arch1-1 - GCC 13.1.1 20230429
inititialpassthrough052223 2 Systems - 84 Benchmark Results	4 x QEMU Virtual 2.5+ - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-72-generic - NVIDIA
test-blender-bwm-with-migigation 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-7300U - Microsoft Surface Pro - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Arch Linux - 6.3.2-arch1-1-surface - GNOME Shell 44.1
Linux-6.4-RC-Sched-test-BORE-EEVDF 7 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.4.0-rc1schedext-00382-g7130c7d74aa3 - GNOME Shell 44.1
bla 2 Systems - 71 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-3930K - Gigabyte X79-UD3 - Intel Xeon E5 Arch rolling - 6.2.12-arch1-1 - X Server
Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS 7900X 7900XTX blender 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-41-generic - Budgie 10.6.1

5800X3d 2023 3 Systems - 131 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.0-1019-oem - GNOME Shell 42.2
7950X renew 5 Systems - 72 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.3.0-060300rc7daily20230417-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
sup easter 2 Systems - 40 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - HP 8A78 - AMD Renoir Pop 22.04 - 5.19.0-76051900-generic - GNOME Shell 42.3.1
Ubuntu 23.04 Laptop Prep 3 Systems - 88 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 43.1
xeon eo march 3 Systems - 231 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Ice Lake IEH Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-rc5-phx-dodt - GNOME Shell 43.0
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Linux 2 Systems - 93 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.8-060208-generic - GNOME Shell 44.0
Ubuntu 23.04 Laptop Prep 4 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-4790K - ASUS MAXIMUS VII GENE - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-40-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
new tests extra cpus 4 Systems - 215 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7343 16-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.02 - 8 x 64 GB DDR4-3200MT AlmaLinux 9.1 - 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.x86_64 - GCC 11.3.1 20220421
arch-baseline 2 Systems - 96 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core - ASRock X399 Taichi - AMD 17h Arch rolling - 6.2.8-273-tkg-cfs-llvm - KDE Plasma 5.27.3
renoir march 3 Systems - 46 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
tigerlake wed 3 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
new march 3 Systems - 66 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - NB01 NL5xNU - AMD Renoir Tuxedo 22.04 - 6.0.0-1010-oem - KDE Plasma 5.26.5
tensorflow ryzen zen 4 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.8-060208-generic - GNOME Shell 44.0
xxx Featured OpenGL Comparison	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH openSUSE 20230303 - 6.2.1-1-default - KDE Plasma 5.27.2
Mixed-Tests 2 Systems - 22 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-2700K - ASUS P8Z77-V LX - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5

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 3.5

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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